Dear Authors
The referee has accepted your revised manuscript subject to "technical corrections" referring to the copy-editing process. So please address the points that I e-mailed (copied below), but there are no more to add from the refereeing process.
Thank-you for publishing in Ocean Science
Yours sincerely
John Huthnance

Line 42. I do not understand “across-shore wind curl”. I think you refer to the across-shore gradient of along-shore wind.
Line 44 and many other places (lines 577, 580, 615, 653, 689, 707, 1061, 1064, 1065, 1066, 1071, 1073. Both coastal divergence and Ekman pumping depend on Ekman transport. You should not use “Ekman transport” to refer to one of the two mechanisms. Use a term that does not apply to the Ekman pumping.
Line 48. It is OK here but in the text in some places you refer to headlands for dominance of Ekman pumping and again for dominance of coastal divergence. Lines 658 and 662;

Line 93. I think you mean “. . the onshore decrease of wind . .”
Line 99. “circulation from the surface circulation. . .”
Line 115. Add comma “,” after “perturbations”.
Line 165. “. . four” (there are sections 3.1 to 3.4).
Line 167. Then “. . The second and third present . .”
Line 169. “. . transport. The fourth relates . . .”

Lines 177-178. “. . from one domain to the next. . .”
Line 178. I think you should say why the largest domain extends to 10°N. Put a summary of your response to reviewer 1 point 10 in the text so the paper is self-explanatory.
Lines 197-198. You will need to ensure that the discussion is accessible. Perhaps the details could be in a supplement.
Line 208. “. . as 1°x1° . .”?
Line 209 end. “depth”. Are the 5 cells around the outside (x,y) boundary? Maybe “. . with a lateral band”?
Lines 210-214. These two sentences might be merged, there is a lot of repetition.
Line 223. “developing flow . .”?
Line 225. “domains with 36, 12 and 4 km resolution respectively.”
Lines 230-231. I assume the 36 km grid applies to WRF. Better “. . comparison for 2007-2009 was done between satellite and WRF using the coarse resolution grid (36km).

Line 276. “. . (Fig. 3b-c).”
Line 309. “. . differences of Ld . .”

Line 378. “this could even be of the same order of magnitude as the vertical advection”. This does not make sense. “What does “this” refer to? Whatever it is, it is not comparable with vertical advection (different dimensions / units). Mixing, cooling and advection are all different!
Line 403. “onshore” not “onward”.
Lines 408-409. Not “extension”. “Despite that the extent of drop-off in front of . . is on average less than . .”
Line 416. “ . . first 50 km from the coast . .”
Lines 423-425. Better “. . (Fig. 5). Mean Ekman pumping in spring is much larger than in the other seasons (i.e. summer, fall and winter), especially . .”?
Line 433. “shows” not “shown”

Line 450. Better “. . while the length scale Ld of Ekman pumping (previously . .”
Line 472. “. . as well as in the”
Line 474. “. . weaker, whereas it is predominant . .”
Line 491. “. . research in future.”
Line 521. “. . with a smaller drop-off scale (Ld) and stronger winds . .”
Line 525. “. . dominance of coastal divergence compared with Ekman pumping . .”
Line 548. “from” not “form”
Line 555. Omit “which”
Line 578. Omit “In addition”.
Line 624. “. . 0.74-0.94; most”
Lines 624-625. I doubt “most values were 0.8”. Perhaps most were greater than 0.8?
Line 628. Better “extent” not “length”.
Line 632. Do you mean “. . projects offshore towards . .”? Perhaps “. . extends from the south towards . .”?
Line 633. “. . less intense tongue but . .”?
Line 644. “headlands” not “ends”?
Line 671. “normalised” not “standardized”?

Line 716. “smaller” not “lower”.
Line 717. “between” not “within”
Line 719. Omit “,” after “shear”
Line 731. “. . large Ld, . .”
Line 742. “. . each process on . .”
Line 746. “. . identify”
Line 753. “fringe” (spelling)
Line 754. Omit “,” after “and”

Line 1034. “obtained (common period . .”
Lines 1040, 1050-1051, 1055. Better “. . (for 2007-2012) . .”
Line 1071. Please define ET and EP in the figure, e.g. “. . Ekman transport (ET) and Ekman pumping (EP) to the . .” – but you need another expression to replace “Ekman transport”.

Figure 7e. Alternative heading not “Ekman transport”
Figure 8. Alternative to label “ET”.