Thank you for resubmitting such a well-revised version of your paper, which I am now pleased to accept subject to some minor technical corrections (as specified by Reviewer 1 - Stefan Grab - who has looked at the paper again for me and whose comments are reproduced below). Once you have addressed those corrections then the paper will be accepted and processed ready for publication.

Dear Authors
This manuscript is substantially improved and I commend you for it. In my view this is now an excellent paper certainly worthy of publication.

Just a few small technical issues to sort:
1. The term 'patterned ground' is widely accepted within periglacial science as a collective term for the patterns concerned and hence the plural that you use in this paper seems strange and incorrect (i.e patterned grounds). Almost all papers on patterned ground refer to it as such and the plural form used in your submitted paper would not conform. Please change to 'patterned ground' throughout.

2. Figure 4 part b - I understand that this part of the Figure displays 'seasonal' temperature patterns as you say in the caption. In fact the seasonal pattern is very beautifully shown! However, the resolution is much finer than only seasonal...it is at least monthly. Hence the data resolution does not comply with the resolution implied (i.e. seasonal) in the caption. The same issue applies with Figure 7. So this requires the captions to be changed accordingly...maybe something like '.....indicating monthly to seasonal temperature resolution......'. Please also check the text re compliance in this regard.

3. Page 15, line 5: '...stripes split up into multiple....' is a colloquial read. Perhaps consider something like '.....stripes diverge into multiple branches....'

Dear Authors,
Thank you for your time and consideration with the changes to this manuscript - and apologies for not getting back to you sooner about the paper. I am delighted to inform you that subject to a couple of minor changes (detailed by the AE) your paper is now accepted for final publication in ESurf. I think your research is especially interesting - and have recommended this be flagged as a highlight paper. Thank you for publishing in ESurf!
All the best
Tom Coulthard