Dear Authors,

I would like to thank you for your detailed responses to the three reviewers’ comments. Based on these three reviews and my own reading of the manuscript, I find that the paper is certainly of interest to HESS readership, and that your responses address the reviewers’ comments thoroughly.

Two referees have requested to review the paper again after corrections have been made. I would therefore like to invite you to upload a revised manuscript, incorporating the proposed changes and additions (including the proposed changes to the figures, the discussion of model performance and limitations, methodological clarification, and terminology), and making any other modifications where you see fit.

I look forward to receiving the revised manuscript.

With best regards,
Louise Slater

Dear Authors,

Thank you for submitting your revised manuscript. After carefully reading the changes myself, I find that the clarifications that were requested by the reviewers (discussion of methods, model performance, limitations, revised figure, etc.) have been well addressed. Overall, I find that this is an interesting paper that fits the scope of HESS very well, and am therefore delighted to recommend its publication.

Sincerely,
Louise