As can be seen the two reviewers are rather positive on your study. They both recommend minor revisions, which you addressed in your reply well. The recommendation to convert the paper into a technical note, is not necessary from my side. Personally, I think this article is more suitable for a research article (https://www.hydrology-and-earth-system-sciences.net/about/manuscript_types.html).

Lastly, I would encourage the authors to upload their data to a public repository. Please see the data policy of HESS for guidelines on this (https://www.hydrology-and-earth-system-sciences.net/about/data_policy.html). If this is not possible, a good explanation is appreciated.

Looking forward to your revised version.

All comments are addressed well. Only I miss a statement why the data is not publicly available. In a way, you could indeed say that "data is available upon request" is 'public'; however, I think this not inline with HESS its data policy. I quote a phrase from (https://www.hydrology-and-earth-system-sciences.net/about/data_policy.html) where it is stated "If the data are not publicly accessible, a detailed explanation of why this is the case is required".

Please provide this explanation. Why is the data not uploaded in a public assessable repository. If it's available upon request, I could also be uploaded. This safeguards longterm accessibility, in contract to e-mailing authors that can disappear (change institution, retirement, etc).