Dear Authors,

Thank you for your careful responses to the two reviewers, and the revisions to your paper. Both reviewers find that the revised version of your manuscript has been significantly improved but one of them still have a number of remarks that must be taken into account. Please address these remarks, in particular the concern about use and and interpretation of APE and I hope that the next revision will be the final one.

Best regards,
Agnieszka

Dear Authors,
Thank you for thoroughly addressing the remaining reviewers' comments and submitting the revised manuscript. I consider that you have addressed their concerns in a satisfactory way, so I am happy to accept the paper subject to the following technical correction:

Line 260: While the caption of Fig. S5 has been corrected according to changing APE to PEA in Section 2.6b, the text in line 260 still refers to 'estimated available potential energy' and 'potential energy' (not PEA). Please correct accordingly.

Thank you for submitting this interesting paper to Ocean Science and congratulations on the acceptance of your manuscript.
Best regards,
Agnieszka Beszczynska-Möller