Dear Author

Thank you very much for your updated manuscript and detailed answers. I consider that the manuscript can be published after the following technical corrections have been taken into account (the pages and line numbering refer to version2 of your manuscript) :
- p8, L244: given the discussion with referee 2, maybe it would be better to write "at which time the system is close to steady state."
-p9, L274-275: please add "(not shown)" at the end of the sentence as these numbers cannot be inferred either from Fig.3 nor Fig.4
-p.10, L307: I don't understand if the vertical eddy viscosity and diffusivity are increased from 1 m2s-1 to 10 m2s-1 for the whole simulations or only dynamically "under unstable conditions" (i.e. when unstable conditions are detected, and if this is the case what is the criteria analysed)? From the way the sentence is written, it looks like it is adjusted dynamically but I would think it is fixed to "10 m2s-1".
-p12, L350 and p.18, L549: is it "flotation" or "floatation"?
-p14, L472, please remove the comma after "because"
-p19, L583, please remove "the" in "vertical resolution and the top ..."
-p19, L585, please add "and" before "converge"
-p19, L586, please put "simulate" instead of "simulated" to use present tense like in the rest of the paragraph
-p19, L588, please remove one period at the end of the line
-p21, L648, please remove one period after "for example"
-p34, Fig. 5 captions: in (a) and (b), please change ". In contour," for "; in contour,"
-Figs. 7, 8 and 14 captions: contrary to what you write in your reply, the precision that the data is averaged over simulation year 10 is not added.

With very best regards