Dear dr. Barral,

I am pleased to conditionally accept you revised manuscript for publication in The Cryosphere, pending some technical corrections (see below).

Best wishes,

Michiel van den Broeke



Textual comments

reviewer

line 91-92 "…through observation studies …" instead of " … through modelling studies.."

Line 138 (Fig.1 Instead of Map 1

Line 146-149 rephrase


Editor:


l. 84: buoancy -> buoyancy

l. 140: but not accessible -> but the site is not accessible

l. 161 and 163: the symbols ' and '' are commonly used to indicate minutes and seconds in lat lon space, not time. Please use commonly accepted 's' and 'min' throughout.

l. 176: warm temperatures -> high temperatures. Use "low/high temperatures" rather than "cold/warm tempertures" throughout MS, please

l. 244: finer -> higher

l. 299: what are "synoptic effects"? Please explain or remove

l. 309: of THE katabatic process

l. 500: Bintanja and VAN DEN Broeke (1995). That would be me.

l. 576: not quite as larger -> not quite the increase

l. 640: largely -> frequently

l. 690: high latitude -> valley (one was in the Alps if I remember correctly)

l. 708: the flow is turbulent and rough, wind profiles are expected to be logarithmic -> the surface is rough and hence the flow turbulent, and wind profiles are expected to be quasi-logarithmic

l. 738: inverse sublimation -> deposition (riming)

l. 842: Snow evaporates -> Snow sublimates

l. 886: floated -> suspended

l. 914 and elsewhere: snow fall -> snowfall

l. 919: condensation -> deposition (riming)