Interactive comment on “Quantifying thermohaline circulations: seawater isotopic compositions and salinity as proxies of the ratio between advection time and evaporation time” by Hadar Berman et al

In this work, the authors derive a new parameter (gamma) to quantify what they call the “strength” of the thermohaline circulation that would be valid for all regions where the flow in the surface layer is weak and driven by evaporation (L#90-91). According to L#117-118, gamma would be related to changes in salinity of the inflow water due to evaporation (??), if I understood correctly. This “strength” concept is not well defined in the paper and I have a lot of doubts about it. I suggest the authors work harder to give a clear physical definition for what they call “strength”. There are bits and pieces spread throughout the MS.