Dear authors,
There are some remaining issues in your revised manuscript. Please make further revision according to the referee’s reports.
I have some additional points:
1. It is not easy for me to understand Fig. 4. Do the plots really present fractional source contributions to the BC deposition flux at the drilling site? If yes, the sum of the data from different regions surrounding the site should be 100%. However, the sum of the “fractional contributions” from South Asia and East Asia seems to be much higher than 100% if the color scale is correct, not to mention contributions from other regions. How can you obtain the data in Table 1?
2. Lines 187-193, I think “meteorological conditions (and associated transport and wet removal processes)” and “local precipitation rate” are not independent of each other, so the logic here seems to be obscure.
3. Line 48, delete the “in” after “absorbs”.
4. Line 136, “the global distribution of aerosols” cannot be “improved”. Please reword the sentence.
5. Fig. 6, please use another color for the India emssions given by Lu et al. (2011). It should also be mentioned that the flux data are based on ice-core measurements or modeling.