Once in a while, you feel your efforts have been appreciated. Here is one such example.

Overview: This is [a] very nice paper that carefully proposes diagnostics for the dynamics of the Indian Ocean’s OMZs [oxygen minimum zones]. The circulation model is not high resolution and as such the results are necessarily dependent on parameterizations and the issues of advection vs. mixing inevitably rear their heads. The authors are however very careful to point this out in their discussions (in the text and the Appendices) and as such do not “overreach”in their interpretations. One could say that this study exhausted what could be done/learned with these types of approaches and sets the stage for more complex models. I very much enjoyed reading the paper and recommend the paper be accepted with some minor revisions considered.