Dear Dr. Rojas and co-authors,

Thanks for your revised manuscript which included changes made after the comments by two referees. I am satisfied with your responses to these comments and the changes made in the manuscript. Your manuscript is accepted for publication.

After reading, I prepared a list with minor and technical comments, which is listed below. Before submitting the final manuscript files, please account for these comments.

Please check your list of references for completeness and corrections. I listed quite a few, but there may be more.

In figures and figure captions, please use only lower-case letters for indicating panels

L1 with regard to (instead of: to the consideration of)
L5 The bulk values of TEF inflow …

L8 suppresses
L9 … during spring tides at, and upstream of, the ETM … (use comma’s)
L11 upper reaches (insert space)

L13 delete: the consideration of
L13 in estuarine studies (in not on)
L118 Please add a real reference to these data in the reference list. If only a website, add when the site was accessed

L134 Modify to: Quantification of water density - with and without suspended sediments (no capitals; replace & with and)
L222 maintains

L225 … the passive model (ρSal, Figure 2d) on intratidal time-scales, as … (couple both sentences as the second part is not a correct sentence)

L237 is, not was (As the river discharge decreases, the longitudinal density gradient …is enhanced) (tenses should comply)
L241 delete continually (as you do not know that from only three locations)

L244 … peaks at … (add at)
L248 … decreases to values near zero …
L251 … although only slightly.

L281 zero, not null
L316 shows
L325 delete the first comma

L344 magnitudes
L345 Please use format 11 March, 12 April, 9 May, also at other places in the manuscript
L358 delete comma

L358 interacts
L376 cannot (no space)
L378 was, not were

L379 decreases
L380 … whereas it increases …
L407 requires, not needs

L409 constraints
L412 delete: In this study,
L423 please write out full SIPS because it is only once before used in this manuscript

L442-443 “This is the first time a study analyzes the effects of suspended sediments concentrations over the total exchange flow methodology.” This sentence seems a bit strange to me. Delete the last word? Another word for “over”?

L452 is, not are

References
L485 please correct journal title
L493 delete: publisher: Annual Reviews
L497 delete: publisher: IAHR Website
L525-526 This reference seems to be not complete
L531 delete: publisher: Copernicus GmbH
L542 delete: section: 13
L544-545 Journal and pages missing
L546 Citation incomplete
L551-552 delete: ublisher: American Meteorological Society Section: Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology
L554 delete: publisher: Copernicus GmbH,
L557 please correct journal title
L559 delete: , publisher: American Meteorological Society Section: Journal of Physical Oceanography,
L563-564 delete: publisher: American Meteorological Society Section: Journal of Physical Oceanography
L579 journal title and pages missing
L602-603 delete: google-Books-ID:59fEAgAAQBAJ,
L605-606 delete: publisher: American Meteorological Society Section: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
L613-614 delete: google-Books-ID:SWtYEAAAQBAJ,
L628 delete: publisher: Taylor & Francis _

With best wises
Mario Hoppema