Dear Authors
Thank-you for your revised manuscript. I am now asking you to consider my “Detailed comments” below as “Technical corrections” after which you should please upload your paper for publication in Ocean Science. I do not envisage needing to see it again but it will be copy-edited and you should check that your intended meaning survives.
Thank-you for publishing in Ocean Science.
John Huthnance (editor)

Detailed comments
Line 28: “what” –> “that”

Lines 47-48. “participates in” or “contributes to”
Line 87. Better “;” or “.” after “variability”
Lines 97-99. “Part” –> “section” (four times).

Line 123. Better “;” or “.” at end.
Line 138. “offshore” –> “offshore from” or “off”

Line 178. “. . examined in detail in . .”
Line 202. “extension” –> “extent”
Line 233. Better “. . SCU to second order . .”

Line 246. Omit “extremely”; line247: better “extremely” –> “very”
Line 250. “not affected” –> “unaffected” [“hardly affected” was perfectly OK!]

Line 271. Better “higher” –> “stronger”
Line 276. Omit last “the”.
Lines 281, 285. “more to the” –> “further”?
Line 297. “Part 3” –> “section 3”?
Lines 303, 304. Better “lower” –> “less”

Line 326. “twice smaller than” –> “about half”?

Lines 369, 370. This might read better with “(i)” before “the daily” and “(ii)” before “the influence”
Lines 374-375. Maybe better “. . In August the southwest monsoon wind is at its strongest . .”

Line 402. Better “higher” –> “larger”
Lines 412-413. Please check “other and larger”
Line 419. “a high uncertainty rate” –> “large uncertainty”?
Lines 423. “, moreover submitted” –> “and moreover subject”?
Line 431. “offshore” –> “offshore from” or “off”

Line 493. Better “high” –> “large”, “northern” –> “north”