Dear Authors,

after reading both the reviews and you answers I appreciate your effort. I therefore feel your work could probably be published depending on the way you address all the comments in your revised manuscript. Reviewer 1 has kindly agreed to go for a second round of review. I will therefore ask him to rpovide us with his opinion on your revised manuscript.

yours
F.M

Dear authors,

I have now read your corrected manuscript and I really appreciate the effort you made to answer all the comments by the two reviewers. I now find the manuscript ready for publication.

Yours truly

Dear Chenge An and Colleagues,

I am very pleased to be able to accept your manuscript for publication in ESurf, based on the evaluation of AE Francois Metivier. Thank you for your patience, and for your hard and careful work in addressing the feedback on the original manuscript.

Your manuscript will now be handled by the Copernicus publishers. Your prompt replies to their queries and instructions will help minimize the remaining time to publication.

It has taken longer than usual to complete the review and revision process: we are all operating under difficult conditions, but our editorial system has not worked at its most efficient for you. For this, you have my apologies. Now, I trust that your work will get good attention, once in print. I look forward to seeing the final version of your interesting contribution.

Best wishess,

Niels Hovius