Dear authors,

As you will have read, both reviewers feel your study fits the scope of SOIL, but have substantial reservations with respect to your manuscript. In particular the relevance of the comparison of the two models, and the lack of calibration are an issue. In your final response you extensively respond to these issues raised. I feel that major revisions in which you address the issues according to the lines set out in your final author response could bring the manuscript to a form publishable in SOIL, subject to re-evaluation by the reviewers.

Dear authors,

I considered the revised version of your manuscript as well as your detailed comments to the points raised by the reviewers. I am happy to see that you substantially improved the manuscript and in my view adequately addressed the points raised. As such, I now recommend the Executive Editor to accept your manuscript for publication in SOIL.

With kind regards,
Boris Jansen

Dear Veronika and colleagues

Many thanks for submitting your paper to SOIL. I will now pass it to our production team who will prepare it for publication.

With many thanks

John