Dear Authors,

Thank you very much for making the point-by-point responses carefully. It appears that the authors responded to their comments sufficiently. So we would appreciate it very much if you could submit the latest version of your manuscript to us. Once we get it, we plan to ask one of the referees who examined the first version for further review.

Again thank you for your nice effort to improve the manuscript.

Kind regards,

Koji Suzuki
Editor

Dear Dr. Smith,

It is a great pleasure now to accept your manuscript for publication in Biogeosciences. Thank you for responding to the reviewers' comments so carefully and completely. Before it is published, please consider my technical corrections below. Thank you.

P2, L9: if model parameterizations are improved for providing accurate predictions …
P2, L29: cells < 10 µm
P5, L4 and P17, L8: total dissolved inorganic carbon
P5, L4: total alkalinity
P7, L10: Phosphate followed by …
P7, L31: “sp.” should not be italicized.
P15, L29: Insert a comma immediately after “al.”.
P33, caption of Figure 1: The “a” of “Chlorophyll a” should be italic. Also the “-3” of “mg -3” should be superscript.

Thank you again for choosing Biogeosciences as an outlet of your excellent work.

Sincerely,

Koji Suzuki
Editor