Dear authors,
based on your responses I invite you to submit a revised manuscript, which accounts for the comments you have received.
Kind regards,
Michael Bahn

Dear authors,

your revisions have addressed the reviewer comments well, and I am pleased to inform you that I accept your manuscript for publication in Biogeosciences.

Before your manuscript can be typeset I kindly ask you make the following corrections to your Figure legends:
Fig. 1: Replace ‚measured‘ by ‚expressed‘, ‚indicated‘ or simply ‚i.e.‘: „The interannual variability (i.e. the coefficient of variation or CV).
Fig. 2: I suppose you refer to the period ‚2000-2014‘ rather than ‚2000-2104‘ – please correct! Furthermore, please include your definition of ‚outlier‘ also here.
Fig. 3: Add date of literature search

Furthermore, I recommend you to include a reference to a recent review article on the topic of your special issue: Frank et al. Effects of climate extremes on the terrestrial carbon cycle: concepts, processes and potential future impacts, Glob. Change Biol., 21, 2861–2880, 2015.

Finally, I thank you for organizing this special issue of Biogeosciences, which has compiled of good number of very relevant contributions to the topic.

Best regards,
Michael Bahn