Dear Ms Takbiri.

Thank you for your careful consideration of the reviewer comments and concerns. From your detailed responses to the points raised by each of the reviewers, I am confident that you can address the required changes in a relatively straightforward manner. As such, I have recommended publication of the manuscript subject to revision and further review by the referees.

In undertaking these manuscript revisions, I recommend paying attention providing further details on the algorithm, parameter descriptions and areas of uncertainty/error in the retrievals (e.g. choice of threshold). A brief discussion of some of the limitations of this approach as well as needed next steps (i.e. evaluation, ground based data, challenges) would also be useful.

Once your revisions are received, I will return the manuscript to the reviewers for their final consideration.

Best wishes,
Matt

Hello Zeinab.

After a final assessment by two reviewers and myself, I am pleased to inform you that your paper has been accepted for the HESS Special Issue: Observations and modeling of land surface water and energy exchanges across scales. I appreciate the time and effort that you made in responding to the reviewer's concerns and also thank the reviewers for their attention to detail.

Our editorial staff will shortly be in contact with you to process this paper to the next stage of publication.

Congratulations on the acceptance of your paper.

Best wishes,

Matt