Interactive comment on “Data-based estimates of the ocean carbon sink variability – first results of the Surface Ocean pCO2 Mapping intercomparison (SOCOM)” by C. Rödenbeck et al

The manuscript is generally well written, though sometimes the heavy use of footnotes and comments in brackets disrupts the flow and makes some details difficult to understand. Why not give up on footnotes and simply include them in the text (perhaps in brackets like this?). I don’t think that there is any reader who will not read the footnote thus jumping to the bottom of the page and than not finding back into the main text can be avoided when including it in the main text.