Dear Authors,

Thank you for responding to the reviewers comments. In general, I find the responses to be satisfactory however I have two main suggestions at this point:

(1) As per reviewer #2 one of the main weakness of the original version of the manuscript is lack of details and clarity on methods, results etc. I would strongly encourage you to have the revised manuscript reviewed by a colleague outside of the authors list to make sure that they find methods etc easily comprehensible.

(2) I think reviewer #2's comment on the downscaling of coarse resolution data is valid and should be discussed in the manuscript. Interpolation of coarse resolution data can introduced further uncertainties and some of the differences can occur simply due to statistical interpolation.

Thank you and I look forward to seeing the revised manuscript.

Best,
Shrad

Dear Authors,

I am please to recommend publication of this article. One of the original reviewers who accepted to review this manuscript again found the manuscript to have addressed their comments satisfactorily. I agree with their assessment.

Congratulations and thank you!

Best,
Shrad