Dear Dr. Konstantinidis and Dr. Sarris,

thank you very much for your revised submission of your paper to the Journal of Geoscientific Model Development. It is a requirement that model description papers, such as yours, need to include the model code or make at least the code available to the editor or reviewers for the purpose of peer review. I would like to encourage you resubmit your paper and to make the code available. You indicated this would be possible with Version 3. Alternatively, you may also consider to resubmit and provide the current version 2 of the code to the reviewers only if you don't want to provide the code to all. Unfortunately, the paper cannot be considered for publication as is.

More details are here under 'model description papers':
http://www.geoscientific-model-development.net/submission/manuscript_types.html

Kind regards,

Josef Koller

Dear authors,

thanks you very much for this much improved version of your paper. Please carefully address the provided comments by the referees and resubmit your paper for publication subject to these technical corrections.

Regards,

Josef