Investigating limnological processes and modern sedimentation at Lake Żabińskie, northeast Poland: a decade-long multi-variable dataset, 2012–2021

Tylmann, Wojciech; Bonk, Alicja; Borowiak, Dariusz; Głowacka, Paulina; Nowiński, Kamil; Piłczyńska, Joanna; Szczerba, Agnieszka; Żarczyński, Maurycy

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-5093-2023

Articles | Volume 15, issue 11

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-5093-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-5093-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 11

Data description paper

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22 Nov 2023

Data description paper |

| 22 Nov 2023

Investigating limnological processes and modern sedimentation at Lake Żabińskie, northeast Poland: a decade-long multi-variable dataset, 2012–2021

Wojciech Tylmann, Alicja Bonk, Dariusz Borowiak, Paulina Głowacka, Kamil Nowiński, Joanna Piłczyńska, Agnieszka Szczerba, and Maurycy Żarczyński

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Final revised paper (published on 22 Nov 2023)
Preprint (discussion started on 14 Jun 2023)

Interactive discussion

Status: closed

RC1:
'Comment on essd-2023-124', Pierre Francus, 24 Jul 2023

The comment was uploaded in the form of a supplement: https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2023-124/essd-2023-124-RC1-supplement.pdf

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2023-124-RC1
- AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Wojciech Tylmann, 30 Aug 2023
  
  On behalf of all co-authors, I thank the reviewer for positive opinion about our manuscript as well as very constructive comments and suggestions. Our answers are attached as a PDF file.
  Wojciech Tylmann
  
  Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2023-124-AC1
RC2:
'Comment on essd-2023-124', Anonymous Referee #2, 07 Aug 2023

The comment was uploaded in the form of a supplement: https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2023-124/essd-2023-124-RC2-supplement.pdf

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2023-124-RC2
- AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Wojciech Tylmann, 30 Aug 2023
  
  On behalf of all co-authors, I thank the reviewer for positive opinion about our manuscript as well as very constructive comments and suggestions. Our answers are attached as a PDF file.
  Wojciech Tylmann
  
  Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2023-124-AC2

Peer review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision | EF: Editorial file upload

AR by Wojciech Tylmann on behalf of the Authors (30 Aug 2023) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (01 Sep 2023) by Yuanzhi Yao

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (14 Sep 2023)

Suggestions for revision or reasons for rejection

I thank the authors for addressing my comments (anonymous R2 on the previous version) thoroughly and thoughtfully. I think the manuscript presents a highly valuable dataset and should be published once the following minor corrections are addressed:

1) in response to my comments on the previous addition the authors provided the following information about figures 4 and 6:
Figure 4 – this figure presents the results from 130 measurement series (field campaigns in monthly or biweekly intervals). Each series consist of several parameters (water temperature, dissolved oxygen concentration, pH, specific conductivity, and chlorophyll-a concentration) in the water depth range of 0–40 m with 1 m intervals.
Figure 6 – this figure presents the daily fluxes, i.e., mass accumulation rates (MAR, g m−2 day−1) calculated for 93 samples collected from the sediment trap. Also values of TOC and TIC come form elemental analysis of the 93 sediment samples.

This level of detail about the contents of the figure should be included in the captions.

2) Generally the text reads quite well, but I found several minor grammatical errors that should be remedied by either the authors or a member of the journal's editorial team. Some examples from pages 2-3 of the ms:
L 51: "allow to assess" should read "allow us to assess" or "allow for the assessment of" or something else grammatically correct
L 67: "Lake Żabińskie is sited" should read "Lake Żabińskie is situated" or "Lake Żabińskie is located"
L 69: "showing features of moraine landscape" should read "features of moraine landscapes" or "features typical of a moraine landscape" or similar.

These three instances are far from exhaustive, so I think the text needs a thorough close read for grammatical clarity.

3) I am not sure whether or not it is an issue that the meteorological data described in the study are not provided. The authors address this in their comments on the previous version, explaining why they are not able to provide the data, but I'm not sure if this is acceptable given the journals mandate for FAIR data.

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RR by Mark Brenner (29 Sep 2023)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (03 Oct 2023) by Yuanzhi Yao

AR by Wojciech Tylmann on behalf of the Authors (03 Oct 2023) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (09 Oct 2023) by Yuanzhi Yao

AR by Wojciech Tylmann on behalf of the Authors (09 Oct 2023)

Short summary

We present a dataset from the decade-long monitoring of Lake Żabińskie, a hardwater and eutrophic lake in northeast Poland. The lake contains varved sediments, which form a unique archive of past environmental variability. The monitoring program was designed to capture a pattern of relationships between meteorological conditions, limnological processes, and modern sedimentation and to verify if meteorological and limnological phenomena can be precisely tracked with varves.