Dear authors

thanks to the reviewers and you for excellent discussion on your paper. It became clear your work is evaluated as a significant contribution to hydrology and landslide research. It also fits perfectly in HESS. However, there have been several technical issues -mainly extra explaining and terminology- to be addressed, most of which you already replied on and agreed to add to the paper. I want to stress that it is important to be as open, clear and complete as possible in terminology, pro- and cons of approach and posisble application, explicitly discuss the way the model integration is done, etc. Both reviewers mentioned these points. This will help readers to use it, work with it and develop it.

I look forward receiving the paper in due time and thanks you for this interesting contribution to HESS

Regards,
Thom Bogaard

Dear authors

I am glad to accept your paper for publication in HESS. As you can see the reviewer raised some last minor points. I trust you will take advantage of those when finalizing the paper for publication. I thank you for your submission and look forward receiving the final version in due time.

Kind regards,
Thom