Thank you for your submission to Biogeosciences. We received one review and two comments from highly qualified researchers in this field. All agree that this well-written MS that addresses a topic of interest to Biogeosciences readers, but all requested more details, clarifications, corrections, and edits, and offered suggestions for improvement - all generally minor. I am happy to consider a revised submission that substantively addresses these reviewer comments.

Based on the authors' responses to the reviewer comments in the MS discussion, it sounds as if the proposed revisions are likely to address the concerns raised if care is taken in providing the requested details, clarifications, corrections, and edits. Thus, I invite you to submit a revised version of your MS that comprehensively addresses these reviewer comments.

Please pay particular attention to addressing the comments and be sure that the clarifications provided in the authors' responses are also incorporated into the manuscript text. Finally, please clearly describe how the text was revised according to the reviewer comments when submitting your revised manuscript.

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Mike

Michael N. Weintraub
Associate Editor
Biogeosciences

You will be pleased to hear that, based on your responses to the reviews, I have concluded that this manuscript is ready for publication. Your efforts to improve this paper are appreciated. Thank you for your hard work, and for your support of Biogeosciences.

Sincerely,
Mike Weintraub
Associate Editor