Dear Author,

many thanks for your reply to the two review reports, and for showing how you intend to take into account the reviewers' comments.

In addition, another couple of issues come from my side after reading the manuscript:

1) Why do you have considered these five families of Copulas: Gaussian, Student-t, Frank,
Gumbel, and Clayton copulas? In literature you can find a wide variety of families of Copulas including also extreme value copulas (EVC), see g.e. Salvadori et al. (2007), Appendix C.

2) Concerning the application of D-vine copulas in hydrology, I would like to point to your attention also Shafaei et al. (2017).

All this considering, I would like to invite you to submit a revised version of the manuscript.
Awaiting for the revised manuscript,

with best regards,

Carlo De Michele
HESS Editor



References
Salvadori G., De Michele C., Kottegoda, N. T., & R., Rosso (2007) – Extremes in Nature: An approach using Copulas, volume 56 of Water Science and Technology Library Series. Springer, Dordrecht, 2007. ISBN: 978-1-4020-4415-1.

Shafaei, M., Fakheri-Fard, A., Dinpashoh, Y. et al. Modeling flood event characteristics using D-vine structures. Theor Appl Climatol 130, 713–724 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-016-1911-x.

Dear Authors,

following the recommendations fo the two Reviewers,
with pleasure I communicate you that
the revised manuscript has now accepted for the publication on HESS Journal.

Congratulations for this important result!

with best regards,

Carlo De Michele