Dear Dr. Kanarik and co-authors,

Thank you for the revised version of your manuscript. I am satisfied with your responses to the two reviews by the referees which I think were quite useful. Your manuscript is now accepted for publication in Ocean Science. Below I added a final list with technical comments. Please take this into account when submitting the final files of your manuscript.

All through the manuscript the authors write magnitude(s) when the current velocity or current speed is meant. Please correct this.

The velocity should be shown with a space, like cm s-1. Please correct this throughout the manuscript.

L65 cm s-1 (insert space between cm and s)
L66 more recent, instead of newer

L67 “they have been largely unpresented and unpublished before this paper” I suggest: they have not been public nor published before.

L70 highly complicated, instead of very complicated
L77 m s-1 (insert space between m and s)

L90 delete: In this paper,
L90 We have data, instead of We had data

Figure 1: Optionally, you may add the names of the different countries into the map. What are the grey lines near the top and bottom of the figure?

Caption of Table 1: (last line): … type of the region (SEE Section 3) where the measurementS were conducted.

L95 It is not clear what is meant with “ensembles”. How is that different from just data? Please define ensembles.
L96 data were marked (data is plural)

L96 NaN (format)
L110 scatterers (typo)

L119 from 6 February to 22 March (format)
L154 “Because of this,” instead of thus

L157 13 September 2006 and in Isokari AWS from 2 May 2006 (date format)
L165 publicly, instead of openly

L180-183 Is there any way that these regions can be shown in the figure?
L187 Storms, instead of Wind storms

L192 I suggest: “3.1 Currents near the southern edge of the Archipelago Sea” or “3.1 Currents at the southern edge of the Archipelago Sea”

L195 The mean current magnitudes (insert: current)
L196 The maximum current velocities … (not: magnitudes)
L196 cm s-1 (space)

Figure 4: Caption, I suggest something like (if correct): Wind directions in different seasons in Isokari (a-d) and Utö winds (e-h)

L200 in the layer closest to the surface, instead of: in the surfacmost layer
L275 northeastern AS (typo)

L281 “that cover all seasons”, instead of: that range through all seasons
L313 Do you mean? : During time periods when a seasonal thermocline was present … (same in line 316)

L524-528 This paragraph sounds very much like a conclusion and I suggest it should also appear there
L530 delete: In this paper
L571 Please translate the title of the publication and add it in brackets. Please also do that for some other references

With best wishes
Mario Hoppema