Dear authors,

many thanks for your detailed replies to the reviewers' comments. Please provide a suitably revised version of the manuscript, providing a point-by-point explanation of how your responses have entered the manuscript. When revising your manuscript, please give particular attention to ensure that all of the very relevant reviewers' major comments and your answers are reflected in the manuscript even if you believe that fully answering the comments with new analyses is beyond the scope of your manuscript.

Best wishes,
Sönke

Dear authors,

your revised manuscript has now been seen by two reviewers and myself. We all agree that you have made a good effort to respond to the reviewers comments. Nonetheless, both reviewers have added some minor concerns, which you are requested to address before this manuscript can be accepted for publication in Biogeosciences. I would like to add to these comments that in Section 2.1 you still (as already remarked in my initial editorial statement) only list eight models, while you claim that you have used all nine models from the TRENDY ensemble. Please do clarify in the manuscript whether you have indeed used all nine models (and add the missing name), or explain in a convincing manner why you have left out one out of the nine models for your analyses.

Best wishes,
Sönke