After reading the manuscript, review comments, and author responses, I would request that the authors make the relatively minor comments suggested by the reviewers in their revisions. If these changes are reflected in the revised manuscript, the manuscript will be accepted at that point.

I found that the reviewers provided highly thoughtful and positive comments on this submission, with both reviewers noting the high value of this dataset. The authors took the review comments seriously and reacted with equal thoughtfulness in their responses. I thank the authors for considering HESS as their publication outlet for this work and look forward to the revised manuscript.

Dear Authors,

Thank you so much for your submission and revision of your manuscript. I found that you addressed all reviewer comments thoughtfully and incorporated their comments into the manuscript where appropriate. After reading the revised manuscript, I have some very minor editorial revisions for you to make in the final paper. Many of these comments stem from the HESS manuscript preparation guidelines related to formatting: http://www.hydrology-and-earth-system-sciences.net/submission/manuscript_preparation.html.

Thank you for your submission to HESS and I wish the authors all the best on their future research.

Minor comments:

Line 40: Change “– to wit” to “;” (Essentially delete the phrase “to wit”)

Lines 54 and 99: You change from using the term “delineations” to “spatial configurations” in these lines. Please be consistent. I prefer the use of “spatial configurations.”

Line 104: Add reference to geospatial fabric (line 108) to this sentence.

Line 171: Spell out ‘~’

Line 185: Should it be “snowfall regions” and not just “snowfall”?

Line 191: Spell out ‘&’

Line 231: Add year and follow the HESS guidelines. The date should be written as 1 October 1980.

Line 240: Remove extra space

Lines 247 and 268: HESS guidelines dictate that a priori is not italicized.

Equation 1 (line 277): A dot or space is acceptable for multiplication. See HESS guidelines for equations.

Section 4 headings: Make the headings bold and not italics. Also, move headings over to the left so that they are not indented.

Line 452: See HESS guidelines. The ‘T’ in Tmax should be italics but not ‘max’.