CO Editor

Suggestions for revision or reasons for rejection

You did a good job reorganizing the paper and addressing my concerns and those of Referee #1. Below, I've provided some minor editorial suggestions where needed. Do note that you need to revise text/equations (3) and (5), however.

Abstract: Strike ‘The validity of the results is critically assessed and concludes’ and replace with ‘We conclude that …’.

Pg. 1, line 21: Change sentence to, ‘Long term records of surface mass balance often contain unquantifiable errors or biases that should be corrected prior to their use (Zemp et al., 2015).

Pg. 2, line 18: Change ‘reanalize’ to ‘reanalyze’ .

Pg. 2, line 18: Change ‘This is achieved…’ to ‘We achieve this reanalysis through a…’

Pg. 3, line 2: Change ‘amongst’ to ‘among’.

Pg. 7, line 7: Why is ‘\DeltaV’ used to denote ‘mass change’ here. Volume times density is mass. I’m presuming you mean the latter? Revisions required here.

Pg. 9, lines 1-2: Choose either ‘C’ or ‘K’ for reporting temperatures in manuscript.

Pg. 6, line 19: Write out all numbers less than 10 unless number is a measurement. (e.g. 1 cm but ‘five stable control areas’).

Pg. 6, lines25-30: Something is not correct with Equation 3. The summation is only for SD but not for number of pixels? It is essential that the reader understand what you are doing here.

Figures and Tables

Fig. 4 Caption: What does ‘corrected’ mean? Its inclusion in the caption is not required. Second sentence of caption isn’t required (just ensure you make that point in the text and refer back to the figure).

Table 1. Provide units for flying height. Change ‘Date of acquisition’ to ‘Acquisition date’

Interactive discussion

Peer-review completion