Dear Sebastiaan van de Velde and Co-authors,

I have read your answers to the comments of the two reviewers that have assessed the first version of your manuscript and based on that I invite you to submit a revised version of your work incorporating the modifications you mentioned in your reply to the two reviewers. Please provide a marked-up copy of the revised manuscript indicating the modifications that have been made.

Thank you so much for your efforts,

Kind regards,

Marilaure Grégoire

Dear Sebastiaan van de Velde and co-authors,

I have read the revised version of your manuscript and the answers you provided to both reviewers' comments. I find that you successfully address all the comments raised in the two reviews. Based on that, I am pleased to accept you paper for publication in Biogeosciences.

I thank you so much for your efforts,

Kind regards,

Marilaure Grégoire