Dear Francesco,

Thank you for re-submitting your mansucript to the Cryosphere in revised form. Although the referee comments were mostly of a minor to moderate nature, I thank you for addressing them in a thorough manner and I believe the mansucript is improved. As such, I'm very happy to recommend its acceptance. However, I note that you insist on referring to the glaciers in Orobie as "maritime" in setting. I'm afraid that I agree with M. Kuhn that this term is potentially misleading because the setting is not truly maritime. Moreover, I don't see any detrimental impact of avoiding this term in the manuscript. For example, the abstract might easily read "along a latitudinal transect that originates north of the coninental divide in the Livigno mountains, and extends south through Disgrazia and Orovbie ranges, encompassing a preciptation gradient that increases from north to south". Elsewhere, you could simply replace matitime with a term like "relatively higher precipitation setting". This would be my recommendation throughout the manuscript, but at the very least, I would ask that you clarify the use of the term "maritime" in the introduction, since I feel an international audience might be puzzled by its use in relation to the glacier settings you describe.

With kind regards,

Chris Stokes