Dear Authors,
Thank you for your efforts to address the reviewer comments and to revise your manuscript. Please now follow the instructions given by the editorial staff and upload a marked up version of your revised paper for further review to check that the changes have been made and are satisfactory.

Dear authors,

Thank you for your efforts to address the reviewer comments. These were mostly satisfactory. However, one of the reviewers had some additional comments and had noted that some changes had not been made. I had also found that some of the earlier changes that were said to be made had in fact not been made. Please go through the earlier referee reports and your responses to ensure that this is properly done. In addition, I have some minor comments (below). Please go through the entire manuscript for grammar as well.

Comments:

P2, L21: the study does not consider mountainous regions. Change this to the northwestern part of the study area or something similar.
P2, L23: replace “bring forward” with “advancing”
P3, L40: add “the” in front of “freezing front”
P3, L41: remove the s from springs
P3, L45: remove the s from summers and falls
P4, L62: the objective of this paper “are” to…
On P4, the objectives are stated, but then the introduction and literature review continues after this. I recommend this be move toward the end of the section, as the second last paragraph.
P5, L85: remove the s from induces
P5, L90: macropores “that” exist
P6, L 101: conduct dynamical downscaling. Also in L111.
P6, L113: as follows
P42, Fig. 6: a legend in the figure to show which line is simulation and which is observation would be helpful. Or else move the text from P16, L285–286 into the figure caption.
P18, L323: remove the s from rises
P18, L329: fluxes show strong…
P23, L412: we show that the model…
P24, L450-451: fix the grammar with this sentence
P26, L486: remove the s from components
P26, L488: is challenging to what? A word is missing.
P26, L490-491: please fix the grammar

Dear authors,
Thank you for your efforts to address the latest set of comments. The manuscript is now ready to be published. there is just one last minor issue. The term "subsurface soils" in the intro on L51-52 is still unclear. Why not call it what you mean, which is "unsaturated soils above the saturated aquifer"?
Thank you.