Dear Dr. Banwell and co-authors,

I have received three reviews of your manuscript “32-year record-high surface melt in 2019/2020 on north George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula.” All three are very positive and all three recommend minor revisions. Based on this very positive feedback, please submit a revised version of your manuscript, a version with tracked changes, and an updated reply to the reviewer comments. Although you have already provided responses to the reviewer comments (with the exception of Reviewer 3, see below), please pay particular attention to the following:

Reviewer 1 would like i) more information on the fate of surface meltwater at the end of the melt season and ii) more information on the uncertainty on the timing of melt events. With respect to ii), I agree with the authors initial response that addressing the uncertainty in phenology event timing from satellite observations is very difficult and agree that adding sensitivity analysis section that also includes a Figure(s) should suffice.

Reviewer 2 would like more information on projections with respect to sea level rise. For this reviewer’s comment about adding a dataset Table, I agree with the authors that a table of datasets is not necessary for these 4 datasets because they are widely utilized by the scientific community.

Reviewer 3 has minor comments but for whatever reason, your response was not uploaded in the Discussion Forum and cannot be viewed so please explicitly address these concerns again.

Steve

Dear Dr. Banwell and co-authors,

I am happy with all your responses to the reviewer comments and the changes made to the manuscript. I accept your paper for publication in The Cryosphere.

Steve