The authors have reasonably addressed the comments of the two anonymous referees and they have modified their manuscript accordingly. However, the comments below should be taken into consideration and several alterations are needed in the main text and the Supplement before the manuscript can be published in AMT.

Main text:
Line 23: Replace "tested are" by "five techniques are".
Line 32: Replace "found an" by "found that an".
Line 33: Replace "leads to" by "lead to".
Line 115: It should be indicated what the "n" in the summation stands for. Then, in line 579 the "n" has become "N". The authors should stick to a single symbol; I suggest to use "N".
Line 127: A literature reference for "Igor" should already be given here.
Line 135: Replace "and Yi" by "and Yi,".
Line 178: Replace "Eq.(7)" by "Eq. (7)".
Line 188: Replace "are explained in section 3.1.2 and 3.1.3 respectively" by "is explained in sections 3.1.2 and 3.1.3, respectively".
Line 200: Replace "uncertainties relative" by "uncertainty relative".
Line 224: Replace "30% respectively" by "30%, respectively".
Line 234: Replace "had been" by "has been".
Line 237: Replace "follows a" by "follow a".
Line 277: Replace "samples are" by "samples is".
Line 286: Replace "3.1, two" by "3.1.1, two".
Line 290: Replace "X respectively to" by "X, respectively, to".
Line 295: Replace "schemes in" by "scheme in".
Line 296: Replace "had been adopted by two" by "was adopted in two".
Line 320: Replace "X respectively to" by "X, respectively, to".
Line 323: Replace "on the top" by "on top".
Line 332: It is unclear to me what "root" is doing here. Should it not be left out?
Line 333: Replace "computor program" by "computer program".
Line 362: Replace "are summarized" by "is summarized".
Line 372: Replace "obtained, however, results from DR with λ=1 shows" by "obtained; however, results from DR with λ=1 show".
Line 383: Replace "by higher the" by "by a higher".
Line 385: Replace "than Case" by "than in Case".
Line 386: Replace "compare to Case" by "compared to Case".
Line 399: Replace "set to be" by "set to".
Line 403: Replace "underestimates the" by "underestimate the".
Line 433: Replace "report unbiased" by "reports unbiased".
Line 445: Replace "approaches report" by "approach reporting".
Line 455: Replace "many commercial" by "much commercial".
Line 474: Replace "embed in" by "embedded in".
Line 478: Replace "sampler is" by "samplers is".
Line 480: Replace "samples and" by "samplers and".
Line 493: Replace "c&d. which" by "c&d which".
Line 496: Replace "A which" by "A in which".
Line 501: Replace "independent to" by "independent on".
Line 509: Replace "are smaller" by "is smaller".
Line 510: Replace "compare to" by "compared to".
Line 535: Replace "resulting decreased" by "resulting in decreased".
Line 570: Replace "It packed" by "It is packed".
Pages 24-27, References: Titles of journal articles should be in lower case instead of in Title Case. Furthermore, abbreviated journal names should be used; thus in line 657 "Measurement Techniques" should be replaced by "Meas. Tech.".
Line 757: Replace on two occasions "that adjust the" by "that adjusts the".
Line 757: Replace "weight orthogonal" by "weighted orthogonal".
Line 766: Replace "0.3 respectively" by "0.3, respectively".
Line 767: Replace "30% respectively" by "30%, respectively".
Line 772: in the top line of Figure 2 replace "generations steps" by "generation steps".
Line 777: Replace "of (Chu (2005))" by "of Chu (2005)".
Line 790: Replace "intercept respectively" by "intercept, respectively".
Line 794: Replace on the second occurrence "varied between" by "is varied between".

Supplement:
Line 21: "York (1966)" is not in the list of References.
Line 22: Replace "is Table" by "is given in Table".
Line 23: "Cantrell (2008)" is not in the list of References.
Line 30: Replace "2 we" by "2 of the main text we".
Line 31: Replace "lower than" by "lower than that of".
Line 37: Abbreviations and acronyms, here "ROA", should be defined (written full-out) when first used.
Line 38: Replace "two source" by "two sources".
Line 39: Replace "varis by" by "varies by".
Line 40: Replace "for two" by "for the two".
Line 41: Replace "listted in Table S8" by "listed in Table S2".
Line 46: It is unclear what is meant by "ratio of average"; average of what to average of what? Furthermore, it should be "ratio of averages" instead of "ratio of average".
Line 50: Replace "underestimate the" by "underestimates the".
Line 70: Replace "which consider" by "which considers".
Line 71: Replace "It packed" by "It is packed".
Line 94: It is unclear what is meant by "ratio of averages"; average of what to average of what?
Line 96: in the top line of Figure S1 replace "generations steps" by "generation steps".
Line 119: Replace "secnario" by "scenario".

The authors have substantially improved the main text and Supplement of their manuscript. However, some alterations are still needed in both before the manuscript can be published in AMT.

Main text:
Line 116: Replace "e.g., distance" by "i.e., distance".
Line 117: It should be indicated what the "N" in the summation stands for.
Line 122: Replace "e.g., distance" by "i.e., distance".
Lines 128, 130, and 135: Replace "Fig.S1" by "Fig. S1".
Line 150: Replace "Summary of five" by "Summary of the five".
Line 157: Replace "Another two" by "Two other".
Line 468: Replace "many commercial" by "much commercial".
Line 548: Replace "resulting decreased" by "resulting in decreased".
Line 806: Replace "0.3 respectively" by "0.3, respectively".

Supplement:
Line 96: Replace "Summary of five" by "Summary of the five"
Line 96, in the last column of the Table S1: Replace "close form" by "closed form" on two occasions.
Lines 103-104: Replace "minimize the" by "minimizes the" on three occasions.
Line 128: Replace "secnario" by "scenario".

The following alterations are still needed before the manuscript can be published in AMT.

Main text:
Line 119: Replace "that used" by "that is used".

Supplement:
Line 129: Replace "secnario" by "scenario".