Dear Dr. Castillo,

Thanks for your resubmission. The manuscript was improved but there are still some issues that should be addressed. Please see the list with my comments.

Thanks and best wishes
Mario Hoppema

Dear Dr. Castillo and co-authors,

Your manuscript looks much better now and is accepted for publication in Ocean Science provided the last technical corrections are accounted for. Below these are listed.

L380 I think (Fig. 5) at the end of the sentence should be deleted, because it is already mentioned earlier and particularly, that it is not shown.

L446-447 … may seasonally play a role in the upper column …
L447 in the region
L484 other fjord regions
L487 Recently, Ross et al. (2014; 2015) showed …

L488-491 I suggest to change this sentence to: The importance of the internal tides on the southern Patagonian fjords is unknown and future research should be conducted to determine its contribution to the dynamics of currents and mixing.

L497-499 The basic dynamics of a barotropic seiche in a fjord originate from winds tilting the along-fjord surface and piling up water at the head of the fjord. The entire fjord basin begins to oscillate after the cessation of the wind.

L500-502 I do not understand this sentence. I am not sure whether my correction conveys what you meant to write. Please correct again if necessary : During a baroclinic seiche, winds events perturb the pycnocline to induce oscillations with a period commensurate with the fjord stratification (Djurfeldt, 1987).

L646 Local wind stress …
L844 … 95% confidence intervals … (delete: of)
L845 for 48, 24 and 12 degrees of freedom are shown. (delete: 817)

Thanks and best wishes
Mario Hoppema