Dear Jérôme,

As mentioned in both reviews of the new version of your manuscript, only a very minimal effort has been made to account for the numerous remarks and recommendations that were made in the 3 initial reviews. I believe your manuscript could be really improved by accounting for these remarks. Especially, a probabilistic approach, which would be very useful for any new application of the method to a real prediction, should be adopted.

I will take a final decision, based on a new version of the manuscript accounting for the remarks made in these two new reviews, as well as a point-by-point reply to both reviews and a highlighted manuscript showing changes from the previous version.

Regards,
Olivier Gagliardini

Dear Jérôme,

Thanks for this new version of your manuscript and your answers to both reviews. I think the current version can be accepted in TC but still need some minor revisions, which I have directly inserted in the attached pdf (if you have trouble reading these comments, I can send you them as a list with line reference).

Thanks for submitting your work to The Cryosphere.

Regards,
Olivier Gagliardini

Dear Jérôme,

Thanks for this new version which can be accepted as it is in TC. Thanks for choosing TC to publish your work.

Regards
Olivier Gagliardini