Dear Drs. Berg and Pace, dear Peter and Mike:

I have read your paper, the reviews and your response and believe that your paper will make a nice contribution to the literature. I therefore invite you to submit a revised version incorporating the feedback and modifications listed in your rebuttal.

With best regards, Jack Middelburg, Associate Editor

Dear Peter and Mike:

Thank you for submitting this paper to Biogeosciences. I enjoyed reading the revised version and I am therefore happy to inform you that your paper is now accepted for publication.

However, while reading I identified a few, very minor (technical corrections):
- At multiple places, you use gasses for plural while most use gases for plural of gas, and gasses for the third person present tense. (I leave it up to Mike as native speaker).
- At two places, you refer to software packages: line 209 (Eddyflux) and line 243 (Spectra). Either give a proper citation where these can be found or mention explicitly in the text somewhere that these packages can be downloaded or are available upon request.
- Line 253: salinity has no unit by definition. If you want to use one, use psu (practical salinity unit), but never ppt because this mean part per trillion for some readers.

With best regards, Jack Middelburg, Associate Editor