Biogeosciences RE : Submission of a revised manuscript to Biogeosciences

However, we are somewhat disappointed that Reviewer #1 did not take the time to review the extensive revisions we had applied to the manuscript in response to his initial comments, and consequently did not notice the change in title that we did implement in response to his first request. Given that the original title remains in the official email correspondences regarding our manuscript, it would appear that the reviewer did not notice the title change we noted in our response document and implemented in the manuscript itself. As a consequence of this oversight, we hope you will agree that the second review of our manuscript by Reviewer #1 does not fairly reflect the effort that we made to address his original concerns—an effort that included, among others, an entirely rewritten Introduction, a new Figure, a modified Abstract, and an expanded discussion of the limitations of our study.