Dear Authors,

you have provided detailed replies to the reports
and taken into account all the major comments received.
In particular, you have considerably streamlined the paper to clarify objectives,
provided more clearly the context and discussed the major results.
Thus, I dont think that there is room for a second round of major revision.
I have read the manuscript and have added a few comments or questions.
I'd like you to take them into account and post a revised manuscript.

With best regards, Gilles Reverdin.

Dear co-authors,

Thank-you for this final edition that clearly responds to my comments.
I think that the manuscript is almost ready to be published.

A few very minor editorial comments might be worth correcting before sending the manuscript
to the editorial office.

With best regards, Gilles Reverdin.

l. 60: Both basins are influenced…
l. 144: ‘and for another quarter’ or ‘and for the other quarters’?
l. 183: replace ‘) but we chose’ by ‘). Thus, we chose…’
l. 334: I think there is a ‘.’ misplaced (before the references)
l. 360: probably change ‘reflecting’ by ‘indicating’
l. 480: ‘along the season’ could be replaced by ‘during the spring season’
l. 953: ‘Note that the Eq depth at station 26 is set …’
Caption Fig. S2: ‘… as a function of…’