Dear Ane Zabaleta and co-authors,

Thank you for posting your responses to the two referees’ reports. The reviews are quite favorable, but they also raised some important comments and suggestions that I urge you to consider as I believe they will improve the quality of the manuscript. Based on my own reading, I find this to be an interesting paper that fits the scope of HESS well and will be of interest to the community.

In addition to the comments from the reviewers, I kindly ask you to add "Author contribution" and "Data availability" sections to the manuscript, as indicated in the guidance for authors (see https://www.hydrology-and-earth-system-sciences.net/for_authors/manuscript_preparation.html).

I invite you to upload a revised manuscript, incorporating the proposed changes and additions, and making any other modifications where you see fit (‘major revision’). I look forward to receiving the revised manuscript.

Sincerely,
Nadav Peleg

Dear Ane Zabaleta and co-authors,

I read the revised manuscript and your rebuttal letter and I am pleased to inform you that your manuscript has now been accepted for publication in HESS, subject to technical corrections (please see below).

General: All the material that is now under ‘Appendix’ should appear as ‘Supplementary Material’ (i.e. should be separate from the main text and uploaded a separate file).
P3, Line 20: remove the comma after slopes
P6, Line 12: catchment should be catchments
P10, Line 6: remove 'that'
P11, Line 5: "Land cover effects on hydrological services - implications"
P11, Line 36: add “of” river discharge…
P11, Line 37: add “to” achieve a solid…
P11, Line 37/38: remove one of the “and” in the sentence
P11, Line 18: use “policies” instead of “politics”
P11, Line 19: Please revise the sentence and consider removing ”is necessary”
In the footnote: Please add “respectively” when applicable. E.g.“…Y10m, A10m, W10m, Sp10m and Su10m: 10th percentile for annual, autumn, winter, spring and summer discharge series, respectively;
P9, Line 13: “Consequently, the land cover combination that gives the highest or lowest median discharge values changes with annual and seasonal precipitation amounts “. Which land cover? In the previous sentence you referred to two combinations Nat and NAT+PAST? Which one is the land cover the sentence refers to?

Thank you for your contribution to HESS and best regards,
Nadav