Dear Dr. Ford,

Thank you for your letter of response to the reviewers. I invite you now to submit a new version of the manuscript that takes into account the reviewers's comments and incorporates the changes outlined in your response. The revised version of the manuscript will be sent to one or several of the original reviewers.

I thank you for submitting your work to Biogeosciences.

Best regards,

Emilio Marañón

Dear Dr. Ford,

I am happy to confirm that your manuscript is now accepted for publication in Biogeosciences. When preparing the final version, please take into account the technical
corrections suggested by reviewer #2:

-Figure 2: colorbar and panel labels are missing. Note that placing the colorbar to the right of the panels (as in Fig.5 onwards) instead of below the panels (as in the previous version) would save space.
-Figure 3: panel labels are missing, together with some appropriate titles. The comment about the location of the colorbar in Fig.2 applies here as well
-Figure 12: 2D histograms are not so common, so it might help to include in the caption a short clarification of the quantity indicated by the colorbar (eg., 'number of occurrence per bin')

Thank you for publishing your work in Biogeosciences.

Best regards,

Emilio