Hello Zhengchen Zang,

Thank you for submitting your manuscript "The Role of Sediment-induced Light Attenuation on Primary Production during Hurricane Gustav (2008)" to Biogeosciences Discussions. After considering the reviewers comments and your answers I believe that your manuscript has potential for publication after a major revision, and so I would like to invite you to revise the paper and resubmit for further review.
In particular, reviewer#1 highlighted that “there are many grammar errors, most of which are missing articles or mismatches in tenses.”
This is an issue that I had already pointed out when I accepted your manuscript for review. I strongly confirm reviewer#1’s recommendation of a professional spell-check of the revised text before submission.
I kindly ask that you submit the revised version of your manuscript by responding to all the points raised by the reviewers and that you have already answered in part. Please note, your revised manuscript should be accompanied by a detailed list of your responses to the reviewers' comments.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions.
Sincerely,
Stefano Ciavatta

Dear Zang and co-authors,

thank you for submitting your revised manuscript "The Role of Sediment-induced Light Attenuation on Primary Production during Hurricane Gustav (2008)" to Biogeosciences.

After considering a second round of review of your manuscript, I believe your manuscript is publishable subject to minor revisions.

The reviewer appreciated your answers to his comments. However they still have some concerns regarding your model, its capability to represent the real system and its parameterization.
The different ability of complex marine models versus simple model to provide reliable inference of processes, to be "portable" among systems, and to provide predictions is the subject of a an open debate in the scientific literature. I recommend to consider and mention this debate in the context of your work.

I am kindly asking you to answer carefully the reviewer's concerns, in both the revised manuscript and in a separate letter, which I will consider to take my final decision.

Thank you in advance,
kind regards

Stefano

Dear Zhengchen Zang and co-authors,

I am glad to accept your manuscript "The Role of Sediment-induced Light Attenuation on Primary Production during Hurricane Gustav (2008)" for publication in Biogeosciences.
I think you have answered the reviewer's comments satisfactorily, by providing supplementary information and references in the revised version of your work.

Kind regards
Stefano