Dear Ben,

Thank you for your revised manuscript.

I would like to publish your manuscript subject to minor revisions. Specifically, your changes/response tackle all of the issues raised by Erik Buitenhuis, but as far as I can see the response to reviewer 2 focuses only on their specific comments. I do not feel that the general comments raised by the reviewer are fully addressed in the revised manuscript, but could be by adding a small amount of additional discussion.

Please can you also expand your code availability section. At present the link takes the reader to page which contains a large set of resources, and it is not at all trivial to navigate to the specific code and code version used within this manuscript. The aim of the code availability section is to make the code available, but also to help people use it, and allow them to reproduce the exact results presented in the manuscript. I think this can be addressed simply in your manuscript by providing some instructions in the Code Availability section in addition to the link. For an example of useful instructions see:
https://www.geosci-model-dev.net/8/3163/2015/gmd-8-3163-2015.pdf.

Thanks again for submitting the revised manuscript,
Paul Halloran
Topical Editor GDM

Insertion of revised code availability section already seen by the editor.