Dear Valeria Di Biagio and co-authors,

I have read the answers you provided to both reviewers comments. Based on that, I invite you to submit a revised of your work that incorporate all the changes that you mentioned in your answers. In particular, one of the reviewers is confused about the reference to " (strong) blooms", "extreme", "maxima". Please clarify how these events differentiate as you mentioned in your answers.
Thank you so much for your efforts,

Kind regards,

Marilaure Grégoire, Associate editor

Dear Valeria Di Biagio and co-authors,

The revised version of your manuscript has been sent for a second round of review. The reviewer that has evaluated the first version of your work is satisfied with the modified manuscript and your replies to his/her comments. He/she underlines your efforts in considering all his/her comments. Therefore, I am pleased to accept your paper for publication provided that you consider his/her request to add figures (like R1.1 and R1.2) in a new Appendix to help the reader to differentiate an extreme event from a bloom as you suggested on page 8 of your reply.

Thank you so much for your effort in considering this last comment,

Kind regards,

Marilaure Grégoire

Dear Valérie Di Biagio and Co-authors,
I have read the last version of your revised paper including a new appendix that helps to convince the reader that all the blooms are not extreme events as requested by one of the reviewers.

Based on that I am pleased to accept your work in Biogeosciences and I thank you so much for all your efforts during the review process.

Kind regards,

Marilaure Grégoire