The paper has now gone through a review and a shorter re-review. The reviews were very positive and your work can now be published in TC.

The reviewers found number of typos and were worried that some more typos may have gone undetected. Would you be in a position of having someone going very carefully, line by line, through the final manuscript? Alternatively, we can have the Copernicus team doing some final proof-reading. However that will involve some cost.

Another small issue is your discussion of the Hayhurst criterion. It is not fully clear to me why you consider that to be inadequate for glaciers. Maybe you could expand on this and justify this a bit better, or conclude that here some further work is needed.

Thank you for submitting your work to TC.

Greetings

Hilmar Gudmundsson
co-editor in chief