Dear authors,
Thank you for submitting your responses to the reviewers' comments. I now invite you to submit a revised version of your paper, which should take into account all of those comments as outlined in your response.
Best regards,
Emilio Marañón

Dear authors,
I am pleased to confirm that your revised manuscript is accepted for publication in Biogeosciences, subject to technical corrections. In revising the text, I have found a few typos and grammatical errors (see below). I urge you to revise the entire manuscript very carefully one more time before final submission. Figure 6 also needs attention, as it shows distracting lines that should be removed.
Thank you for submitting your work to Biogeosciences.
Best regards,
Emilio Marañón


Editorial comments on Wagener et al. BG 2018-163
(Note: line numbers refer to the manuscript version with tracked changes in the authors’ response letter)
Fig 6 still has faint, white lines radially originating from the black dots that denote sampling depths – this is probably the issue reviewer 2 was referring to, and needs to be fixed.
line 27, delete Kg, also carbon appears twice (C and carbon). Re-write as: ‘10 petagrams of carbon’. A comma should be inserted before ‘which’ (this applies to others instances in the manuscript).
line 31 et al. not et al
l 46, ‘carbonate system’, not ‘carbonateS system’
l 64, remove space before :
l 68, re-write as ‘does not correspond’
l 70, ‘cannot’, not ‘can not’
l 166 ‘ca.’ not ‘c. a.’
l 235 remove ‘:’ and insert ‘.’ (that is, make two sentences here)
l 238 ‘tuned’ not ‘tunned’
l 245, what is a ‘normalized standard deviation’? If the authors refer to standard deviation divided by the mean, that is a coefficient of variation.
l 250, ‘does’ not ‘do’
line 251 depths ... were
l 421 highlightS
legend to Table 1 should be ‘castS’
line 607 remove second ‘outpace’
line 619 insert ‘in’ before C_ant