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This manuscript is interesting to me, in which the ideal deployment locations in the central Arctic Ocean for ice camp or buoy have been discussed by using SIM product, and the main standard is to ensure that Lagrangian observations can last a period as long as possible. The logic and structure of the manuscript are ok for me, but I still suggest the authors should address the following issues.

(1) L66, “The Arctic sea ice is mainly driven by wind and oceanic current stresses”. Maybe you mean the drift of Arctic sea ice or sea ice dynamics is driven by….

(2) L73-77 tell the motivation of this study. But I am not sure if there is any similar study on this topic? From the statement here, this study is the first one considering the ideal deployment location in Arctic Ocean.

(3) The content in the introduction section is a little confusing. What exactly you want to summary in this part? Sea ice dynamics? Pervious ice stations? Or something else?

(4) L110. The definition of the rectangular area in Fig.1 is still somewhat arbitrary to me. Maybe you can put the EASE-Grid as the background and then select some from all of them. “The reasons for this diagnosis will be given later.” Please specify where you have discussed this problem.

(5) Section 2.3. If the ice floe is broken into pieces during drifting, is there any impact on the calculation of the survival time (ST)？

(6) L197, “FDD(TDD) refers to the integral of near-surface air temperatures below…”. What kind of air temperature? hourly average or daily average?

(7) Section 3.2. Air forcing such as temperature and long-wave radiation have been investigated here. How about the precipitation? Snowfall poses an important impact on sea ice growth and decay.

(8) Section 3.3. The ice-wind speed ratio in Fig.8 is also overall lower than the typical values in free-drift analytical solution. You can also discuss this difference, maybe relating to sea ice concentration.