Dear Authors,

Thank you for your prompt and detailed responses to the reviews. I find this is a very interesting and original manuscript which is likely to be of considerable interest to the flood hydrology community, however there are some legitimate queries about whether the method performs as expected. Both reviewers have raised some valuable points (especially better clarifying and validating the methodology, and interpreting the results). I would therefore like to invite you to please submit a revised manuscript which addresses the issues raised by the reviewers. The manuscript will then be sent to the same reviewers for re-review.

I am looking forward to reading your revised manuscript.

Regards,
Louise Slater

Dear Authors,

Both of the original reviewers have read your revised manuscript and they both agree that all comments have been well addressed, and the manuscript is improved.

Based on their comments and my own reading of the manuscript, I am delighted to accept this interesting paper for publication.

I would like to thank the reviewers for their input, and look forward to seeing the paper published.

Sincerely,
Louise Slater