Thanks for your thorough responses to the reviews.

The remaining outstanding issue is the code availability.

1.
Code that can be made available must be made available before the manuscript can be accepted. I think you mean, "At present, it is in a transitional phase with the aim of being released publicly in the future, but it is currently not publicly available." to be a general comment referring to the model in general, and an undefined time scale, rather than to version 1.3. However it could be misleading so please rephrase to remove the impression that you are embargoing GRISLI 1.3.

2.
Please explain the reasons why the code is not available.

3.
The requirement is that code is made available to the editor at minimum. Therefore, please provide me with GRISLI v1.3.

4.
Are you able to make the part of the code that you developed in the manuscript accessible? If so, please upload it as a supplement.

I am happy to accept the paper. The authors have explained the code availability situation more clearly, have made the full model code available to me as editor, and have uploaded as a supplement a code module for the iterative minimisation of the basal drag coefficient. Compared to the version in the code base, the version in the supplement has had comments translated from French into English and extraneous lines have been removed. Strictly speaking this makes it non-identical to the version in the code base, but I am convinced it is functionally the same with identical algorithms, and appreciate that increased utility and accessibility for readers results from these edits.