Dear Authors
The reviewers have now seen your revised manuscript and have very little more to say. The following includes their and my “Technical corrections.” This is now my last expected iteration and your version after these corrections should go directly to the Copernicus publication process. This will include copy-editing and you should check that your intended meaning is retained.
Thank-you for submitting to Ocean Science.
Yours sincerely
John Huthnance

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Line 10. I think “level” should be “longitude”, or perhaps “depth” but that would need some explanation.
Lines 17-18. See referee comment

Page 5 line 10. Delete “m” at end. But SSALTO/DUACS User Handbook should be given a reference or Web address.
Page 6 line 5. “appliance” -> “application”
Page 7 line 9. “in the” -> “of”.
Page 8 Figure 2 caption line 3. “. . weaker and undetectable . .” or “. . weaker, resulting in it being undetectable . .”
Page 9 line 5. “splitting”
Page 9 line 10. What “has been observed”? – be explicit.
Page 9 line 13. “. . differences . . mean values, . . standard deviation . .” of what?

Page 11
Line 4. “anticyclone” or “anticyclones’”
Lines 5, 6. “97th”, “98th": “t” and “h” should be same size and both or neither superscripted.
Line 24. “areas” -> “area” ? (only one?)
Line 29. “Appendix”

Page 12
Line 6. “over” -> “on”
Lines 8, 9, 11. “step” –> “range” (my preference)

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Figure 6 see referee comment
Lines 8-9. Better “. . structures) and on anticyclones both shorter and longer . .”

Page 14 figure 7 needs units for mmEKE

Page 15 line 11. Not “grey” bars!

Page 18.
Line 3. Better “number formed is in . .”
Line 9. “lies between . .”

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Line 6. “. . responsible for . .”
Line 16. “track in correspondence of” -> “corresponding to” ? (otherwise I am not sure what you are trying to say).
Line 17. Not clear what “it” refers to. Please be explicit.

Page 21.
Table 3 needs to named “Table 3”. Maybe the text in lines 3-5 should be its caption.
Line 9. “shifted in time” rather than “reversed”? “respect” -> “with respect”
Line 23. “where” twice but not clear what area is referred to. I think the highest KE (line 24) is in the EAG or eastern cyclonic loop but “. . and where” (end of line 23) suggests the middle of the basin like the first “where”.
Line 24. Best to name “this area”.

Page 23.
Line 12. “respect” -> “with respect”
Line 23. “42%” -> “42% of”
Line 28. Delete “,” after “I”
Line 29. “37%” -> “37% of”

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Lines 30-31. I think you mean “. . Current; they are more probably caused by other currents, such as the North Balearic Front, or by wind forcing (Le Vu et al. 2017) . .”
Line 32. Add “,” after “pathway”

Page 25.
Line 3. Location of “both” suggests only 2 eddies. “. . hosts eddies which deviate westwards and eddies deviating eastwards. . .”
Line 11. “extension”. If you mean how large they are in the vertical, then “extent”.

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Lines 29-30. “The relationships between . . and mean energy or mean radius, and their standard deviations, are not significantly affected by the different values . .”?

Page 28 acknowledgements should include use of CMEMS data.