Dear Sebastian,

Thank you for your detailed response to the referees and the revised manuscript with tracked changes. Both referees were very enthusiastic about your paper presenting novel research. Their remarks were therefore relatively minor. Nevertheless, you did respond correctly and with sufficient detail and the revised manuscript has been greatly improved. I am therefore happy to accept your manuscript as is. I only have two minor typos detected:

p3, line 19: replace comma by semicolon

p13, line 21: m d^${-1}$ instead of md^${-1}$

Thank you for submitting to The Cryosphere.

Kind regards,
-Frank