Answer to Reviewer No. 2

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We would like to thanks the reviewer for the positive criticism and recommendations. Below you find a point-by-point response to all comments. QR2-There is a lack of discussion regarding previous studies, which referrer to the seasonal cycle of the LC, like Chang & Oey (2012, 2013, which expose a bimodal cycle obtained with model outputs; Hall & Leben (2016), which show an annual cycle with altimetry data; or Candela et al. (2019), which estimate the amplitude of the C1 OSD