Dear authors

your papers has been well received and positively evaluated. It is timely and sound research. The reviewers do give some constructive comments and corrections. You clarified or agreed with them and gave clear answers how to address those in the revised paper. Overall, the paper needs minor revision.

I look forward receiving the revised version in due time
kind regards
Thom Bogaard

Dear authors

thanks for the revised version of your paper. I think you did an excellent job in revising the paper based on the referees' suggestions. I am happy to accept the paper for publication in Hess.
When I went through the paper I saw one point that could be improved. You mention permeability and (soil) (saturated) conductivity
The use of bedrock permeability (or geological permeability) is quite consistent, however, soil hydraulic conductivity not. This gets a bit confusing when you write "bedrock permeability and conductivity" (without specifying) e.g. P26L20. Or when it gets soil permeability (P24L1). Sometimes it is effective (soil) saturated conductivity.
I advice you to go through the paper and use coherent terminology for soil saturated conductivity (saturated conductivity of the soil) etc. as I think it will help the readers.

I also noticed you sometimes write "leave one out cross validation" with and without hyphens and with and without Capital First Letters.

You can change those when uploading the final version of the paper.

Good luck with your research
Best
Thom Bogaard