Dear authors,

Many apologies for the delay in our evaluation of your manuscript. As you can see from the reviewer comments, both found your study to be of significant interest to the Biogeosciences community, and provided valuable comments and suggestions for improvement. I appreciate your thoughtful responses, and invite you to submit a revised manuscript for further consideration.

In reviewing your responses I noted various instances of incorrect grammar and use of English. I realize the English is not the first language of all co-authors, but would encourage you to pay special attention to the use of language in your revised manuscript, and if possible to enlist the help of a fluent English speaker or proof-reading service.

Best wishes, and apologies again for the delay whilst I was on leave.

Trevor

Dear Gilvan Sampiao and colleagues,

Thank you for uploading your revised manuscript to Biogeosciences. I am happy to say that your revisions have greatly improved the manuscript, and we can now accept it for publication. Congratulations on an excellent study, and best wishes for your future research.

All the best,
Trevor

p.s. please note you will need to update your code availability statement at this stage.