Dear authors

please follow the reviewer's comments and revise your manuscript accordingly. You have to upload your revised version again. The revised manuscript will be evaluated by reviewers again.

Best wishes
Markus

Dear authors

please revise your manuscript by following the suggestions by the reviewers. I am not sure if you can see the comments by reviewer no.2 which I attach here again. Please improve the language by a native English speaking person.

Best wishes
Markus Meier





Reviewer no.2:

I think the manuscript can be published with minor corrections.
The introduction is now more concise and gives a good overview over the purpose of the study and previous work on that. Likewise, important information in the methods section has been added and it is now possible to more easily understand the modeling approach and experimental strategy. Drawbacks of the study are clearly indicated and are discussed under the framework of the studies goals and available current knowledge of the Aegean Sea and Izmir Bays oceanography..
The discussion and the results are now better understandable. Improvements and addition of figures likewise facilitate the understanding of the studies and one gets now insight what the findings of this study are valid for.

I have only some minor comments:

Abstract. I recommend to remove the last sentence.

line 52: rephrase this sentence. Maybe:
“Using a three dimensional finite difference model the author demonstrated that the shallowing...”

line 70 : put 2006 into paranthesis (2006)

line 73 rephrase like e.g.:
There is a demand by other disciplines such as biologists chem8ists etc to get detailed information about dominant circulation patterns under cahracterisyc wind fields.


line 95 rephrase:
“Since 1996 regular measeurements have been conducted...”

line 109 in OUR institute

line 112 Sayin and Krauss, 1996 is lacking in the refrences.

line 164 is MORE complicated

line 194 UNDER westerly conditions

line 240: How is winter convection produced when meteorological forcing is absent?

line 241 replace “Second” by “The latter”

Dear authors

I am delighted to inform you that your manuscript is accepted for publication in OS.

Best wishes
Markus