Dear Dr. van den Berg:

Thank you for submitting this work to Biogeosciences. I have read your manuscript, the reviews and rebuttal and based on this I believe that a revised version will likely be acceptable for publication. I therefore invite you to submit a revised vesion along the lines of your rebuttal.

With best regards,

Jack Middelburg, Associate Editor

Dear Merit, (dag Merit),

I have read your rebuttal and revised version and I am happy to inform you that your paper is now accepted for publication in Biogeosciences.

While reading I identified a few minor corrections that you might consider:

- L. 78: EC has already been introduced, no need to do it here again.
- L. 85: concentrations up to 50 ppm CH4...
- L. 315-324: no need to have three paragraphs here, merge these three.

You have chosen to use diurnal although the referee is correct in that you have to use diel if you are referring to 24 hour cycles and diurnal when it relates specifically to daytime. E.g. diel cycles (24h cycles) and diurnal pattern (daytime emission/uptake pattern). The argument that most of us do it wrongly is not a good argument. (Back in 1998 we received a similar comment from referees of the van der Nat et al. 1998 Biogeochemistry paper). However, I leave it up to you, it is your paper.

Once again, thank you for submitting this nice, lasting paper to Biogeosciences,

Jack Middelburg, Associate Editor