Dear Authors

I would like to invite you to submit a revised version according to the revisions discussed in the public discussion. Thanks for your subission to HESS.
Kind regards
Bettina Schaefli

Dear Authors

I just have had a quick look on your manuscript. I kindly invite you to submit a new version with better quality figures before my final Editor review. In particular:

- increase the resolution of all figures
- submit vector figures for figures 3 - 7 and 9.
- be more explicit about what is shown in the different rows of the figures, i.e. add a, b, c, etc to all figures that have rows, in particular to figure 9, to figure 5 (say which lead times are shown in which subplot rather than "The lead time for each row of plots is given in blue. "; figure 6: add a, b, c to the rows and refer to it expclitily in the caption; figure 7: add a,b,c,d to the rows and mention explicitly in the text

- remove the numbers from figure 6 and put into a table;

Kind regards
Bettina Schaefli

Thanks for the revised version, which is now ready for publication.