Diatom flux reflects water-mass conditions on the southern Northwind Abyssal Plain, Arctic Ocean

Onodera, J.; Watanabe, E.; Harada, N.; Honda, M. C.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-1373-2015

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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-1373-2015

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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-1373-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 12, issue 5

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04 Mar 2015

Research article |

| 04 Mar 2015

Diatom flux reflects water-mass conditions on the southern Northwind Abyssal Plain, Arctic Ocean

J. Onodera, E. Watanabe, N. Harada, and M. C. Honda

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RC C7013: 'Review Onodera et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 27 Nov 2014
- AC C8128: 'Reply to the interactive comment by Referee #1', Jonaotaro Onodera, 19 Jan 2015
RC C7085: 'Review 2 "Onodera et al."', Anonymous Referee #2, 02 Dec 2014
- AC C8130: 'Reply to the interactive comment by Referee #2', Jonaotaro Onodera, 19 Jan 2015

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Jonaotaro Onodera on behalf of the Authors (19 Jan 2015) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (19 Jan 2015) by Gerhard Herndl

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (10 Feb 2015)

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Onodera et al.
Diatom flux reflects water-mass conditions on the southern Northwind Abyssal Plain, Arctic Ocean

Overall I am satisfied with the authors’ response to the review comments regarding the scientific content of the paper. I also appreciate the addition of sea ice motion; this makes their conclusions more convincing. However, the manuscript must be corrected by a native English speaker before publication.

Some specific corrections to be made:
Introduction:
The introduction is still difficult to read, there is no connection between subjects and sentences, a lack of flow.

More precisely:
In the first paragraph of the Introduction: There is no link among the 3 sentences. A better transition between sentences is needed and the intensification of sea-surface circulation should be better explained.

Line 43: ‘to’ should be spelled ‘too’, but in fact the word ‘also’ should be used instead.

Line 55-56: ‘A long-term sediment trap experiment containing observation of diatom fluxes have been conducted in the Fram Strait (Bauerfeind et al., 2009)’: As it is this sentence is useless. If the authors want to mention this study they should provide some results or interesting conclusions that came out of it.

Line 72-73: As POC fluxes in the manuscript are presented in g C m-2 y-1, POC fluxes cited in the Introduction should also be presented in this unit for comparison and not in mmol.

Throughout the manuscript, the name of the author should be changed to Lalande (not Lallande).

Material and Methods and Results:
Since the diatom carbon fluxes were calculated, they should be presented first instead of the amount of valves flux.

Line 220-221: This sentence is incomprehensible.

Discussion:
Again, many sentences need English revision.

Figure 2 was missing.

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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (11 Feb 2015) by Gerhard Herndl

AR by Jonaotaro Onodera on behalf of the Authors (16 Feb 2015) Author's response Manuscript

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