Arctic Ocean outflow and glacier&ndash;ocean interactions modify water over the Wandel Sea shelf (northeastern Greenland)

Dmitrenko, Igor A.; Kirillov, Sergey A.; Rudels, Bert; Babb, David G.; Pedersen, Leif Toudal; Rysgaard, Søren; Kristoffersen, Yngve; Barber, David G.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/os-13-1045-2017

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https://doi.org/10.5194/os-13-1045-2017

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https://doi.org/10.5194/os-13-1045-2017

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11 Dec 2017

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| 11 Dec 2017

Arctic Ocean outflow and glacier–ocean interactions modify water over the Wandel Sea shelf (northeastern Greenland)

Igor A. Dmitrenko, Sergey A. Kirillov, Bert Rudels, David G. Babb, Leif Toudal Pedersen, Søren Rysgaard, Yngve Kristoffersen, and David G. Barber

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RC1: 'review of Dmitrenko et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 03 Jul 2017
- AC1: 'Response to comments by Reviewer #1', Igor Dmitrenko, 10 Sep 2017
RC2: 'Review of Dmitrenko et al', Anonymous Referee #2, 13 Aug 2017
- AC2: 'Response to comments by Reviewer #2', Igor Dmitrenko, 10 Sep 2017

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AR by Igor Dmitrenko on behalf of the Authors (11 Sep 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (13 Sep 2017) by Mario Hoppema

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (02 Oct 2017)

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Review of revised version of “Arctic Ocean outflow and glacier-ocean interaction modify water over the Wandel Sea shelf” by Dmitrenko etal.
I appreciate the improvements that were made in this revised version, and I only have a few remaining remarks and suggestions. My biggest problem that I have with this paper is to really understand the importance of the Wandel Sea for the Arctic Ocean outflow. While all the map-figures in the paper provide some valuable information, I feel that there is still one map missing that would introduce the region with an intermediate zoom. The way I read the paper, the Wandel Sea is a tiny glacial fjord system, but it really is more than that. Zooming in on the northeastern half of Greenland on the IBCAO map gives a nice bathymetric overview of the region. Figure 1 is too coarse to show that, and figures 2-4 are too detailed. Based on your data, you infer a certain circulation pattern on this shelf, which might justify that you summarize these findings in a map with sketched-out current vectors. This would help the reader to better understand the implications of the analyses. The paper implies that the region features a number of processes (glacier-ocean interaction, shelf-basin exchange, and is an advective pathway or the beginning of the East Greenland Coastal Current), which could be emphasized in the abstract and in the summary. I would encourage the authors to consider these points, but I leave that up to their discretion. In my opinion the paper’s relevance could be increased without too much additional work.
A few more minor points:
- Fig 8: label the lines with „T“, „S“ etc
- In my opinion, introductory sentences to following sections are not necessary (i.e. lies 398-400; 427-429)
- L461-472: What is the idea regarding Siberian shelves river water? Is the freshwater advected with the Transpolar Drift to the NE Greenland coast or are you assuming a detour of the river water through the Canada Basin? This part could use clarification
- L109: where is the ITP station on the map?
- L132: profiles that were collected
- L192: …which reveals or revealed…

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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (02 Nov 2017) by Mario Hoppema

AR by Igor Dmitrenko on behalf of the Authors (08 Nov 2017) Author's response Manuscript