Dear Tingfeng Dou and co-authors,

We have heard back from two reviewers regarding your revised submission tc-2020-214 entitled “Trends and spatial variation in rain-on-snow events over the Arctic Ocean during the early melt season”. The reviewers recommend acceptance after minor revisions and have provided suggestions for improving the manuscript.

I have examined your responses to the comments and suggestions. Based on the aggregate of the reviews and my own assessment, the editorial decision is that your paper may be acceptable for publication after Minor Revision. The revised manuscript will be offered to the reviewers for further evaluation.

You will be hearing further from the journal concerning next steps in the publication process.

Thank you once again for considering The Cryosphere for the publication of your paper.

Sincerely,
Ketil Isaksen
Editor
The Cryosphere

Dear authors,

We have received the revised manuscript and heard back from two reviewers regarding your revised submission tc-2020-214 entitled “Trends and spatial variation in rain-on-snow events over the Arctic Ocean during the early melt season”. The reviewers recommend acceptance as is/accept subject to technical corrections and have provided only a few technical suggestions for improving the manuscript (see below).

Given these revisions and responses and the improvements you made in the revised manuscript, I am pleased to accept your paper for publication in The Cryosphere.

You will be hearing further from the journal concerning next steps in the publication process. In the meantime, congratulations on the acceptance!

Thank you once again for considering The Cryosphere for the publication of your paper.

Sincerely,
Ketil Isaksen
Editor
The Cryosphere

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Referee #1 suggestions for technical corrections:

Line 48: I suggest inserting "the" before "Canadian Arctic Archipelago". Also, I'd either insert "the" and before "high-Arctic Archipelago Svalbard" or just use "Svalbard".

Lines 86-87: I suggest inserting "the" before "Modern-Era Retrospective".

Line 262: There appears to still be a reference to MERRA2 here that should be switched to MERRA.