Suppressed Thermocline Mixing in the Center of Anticyclonic Eddy in the North South China Sea
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Review of “Suppressed thermocline mixing in the center of anticyclonic eddy in the north South China Sea”
The authors analyze hydrographic data from CTD profilers from a cross-section of an anticyclonic eddy in the South China Sea. This paper is clear, well-written, and scientifically sound. The authors take great care in explaining their derived quantities, plotting them, and explaining their results. Data is compared to parameterizations of mixing, and discrepancies are discussed.
I read carefully through the manuscript, and have no major comments.
Minor comments:
Eqn 3: is j a typo?
134, 143 lines after equations that continue a sentence should not be indented.
259 “below the surface mixed and mixing layers, respectively.” Did you mean “Solid and dashed lines show bottom of mixed layer and thermocline, respectively”
Author Response
We thank the reviewer for the very useful comments. Here are the responses.
(1) In Eq. 3, j is not a typo. The expression can be found in Eq. 5.
(2) We have deleted the indent of the sentences.
(3) Yes, the paper means “Solid and dashed lines show bottom of mixed layer and thermocline, respectively”. Now we have modified the text in the paper.
Reviewer 2 Report
Please see the attached report for comments.
Comments for author File: 
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Author Response
We want to thank the reviewer for the professional review comments. Here are the responses.
(1) We now replace the figures with higher resolution images.
(2) First we want to apologize that the reference 12 was mistype to 21 in the text. Now the mistype has been corrected. Also we add the brief discussion of the two references that:
"Cyriac et al. [12] reported larger dissipation rate and diffusivity within anticyclonic eddy than that in cyclonic eddy in the Indian Ocean. Yang et al. [45] also revealed that, comparing to cyclonic eddy and background turbulence, elevated diffusivity existed within an anticyclonic eddy in the South China Sea. That means enhanced turbulence within anticyclonic eddy is recognized by many scientists."
