Dear Authors.
Thank-you for your revised manuscript responding to the reviewers. I am asking for some “technical corrections” – see below – after which you should submit the revised manuscript directly into the Copernicus / OS publishing process. It will be copy-edited and I expect there will be changes; you should check that the final version has the meaning that you want. Thank-you for publishing in Ocean Science.

In response to Reviewer 1 you say “We recognized that exploring if longer PLD would induce significant changes in the trajectories is interesting and it introduces an analyze on the temporal dimension. We dealt with this idea in the context of another study (in preparation) implying the same species, the considered model (ROMS-Rutgers) and different objectives.” Something about this should be in the Discussion – please be careful with the English as I will not be checking for clear meaning.

Detailed comments (mostly for use of English).
Please move equation numbers to the right (separated from the equation itself).
Line 26. Better “bottom, should give more accurate simulations of near-bottom passive drift. Those results . .”
Lines 27, 81, 405, 455. “parameterization” or “discretization”?

Line 37. “consist of” -> “provide”?
Line 61. Omit “Up”

Lines 79, 345, 377, 431, 444, 460. “sensibility” -> “sensitivity”?

Lines 155-156. “in the bottom off the continental slope.” -> “on the bottom at the continental rise.”?
Line 185. Better “. . larval behavior (such as egg buoyancy or swimming ability) at the egg and larval stages. The”
Line 199. “dispersal Lagrangian” -> “Lagrangian dispersal”

Line 244. “on 29 km” -> “only 29 km” or “29 km”?
Line 253. “onside” -> “inside”?
Line 263. “higher” -> “greater”
Line 266. “vertically dispersed than similar conditions of releases” -> “more dispersed vertically than from similar release conditions”
Line 269. Better “. . than over open slopes. . .”
Lines 278-279. Do you mean “The drifts within BC were downward by 62 m (average?) when particles were above the northern wall and upward by 36 m (average?) when particles were above the southern wall.”?
Line 297. “the less far away by drifting” -> “the least distance:”
Line 317. “than” -> “as”?
Line 323. “the double” -> “twice that”?

Line 356. “on” -> “in”.
Line 358. “angular exposition” -> “angle of exposure” or “alignment relative”?
Line 364. “On” -> “In”.
Lines 364, 366. Please replace “unlinked” which has unclear meaning.
Line 366. “more impacted” by what? Or choose another word.
Line 402. “a” -> “one”
Line 406. “Such two factors revealed particularly the importance” -> “These two factors are shown to be particularly important”?
Line 408. “minor” -> “large”?
Lines 419-420. I do not understand this sentence, specifically “. . BOE . . are efficient.” What actually are efficient?
Lines 426-427. “it is known to interfere in the vertical position”. Unclear. What interferes? Vertical position of what?

Lines 663, 664. “intern” -> “internal”
Line 664. What is RMSD?