Dear authors,

The reviewers have made a number of constructive remarks, to which you have provided your initial response. Please revise your manuscript accordingly and provide a point-by-point rebuttal to the issues raised by the reviewers. The revised paper will be sent out for review again.

Best regards,

Remko Uijlenhoet

Dear authors,

Thank you very much for submitting your revised manuscript and replies to the issues raised by the reviewers. As indicated before, because a number of substantial points was raised, I am going to send the revised paper out for review again.

Best regards,

Remko Uijlenhoet

Dear authors,

Your revised manuscript has now been reviewed by the same three reviewers as the original paper. All reviewers agree that the manuscript has significantly improved with respect to the previous version. I tend to agree with that. The remaining issues are mainly of an editorial nature. I invite you to consider the final remarks and suggestions made by two of the reviewers. In particular, I would like to ask you to:

- Pay explicit attention in the abstract, discussion and conclusions to the limits of the insights provided by this study, related to the fact that the presented comparisons are performed on a daily basis. It would be great if you could speculate a bit on the implications of the presented results for the quality of the various rainfall products at the sub-daily (down to hourly) scale, which is a scale of great hydrological significance (relevant for the HESS readership).

- Take a careful look at the figures: provide the highest quality figures possible (now some of the figures seem to be somewhat vague); avoid using colors if they do not add information for the readers; and make sure that the figure legends and captions provide complete information on what each figure tries to convey.

- Finally, perform a final round of detailed spelling and grammar checks, to avoid having to correct many minor errors during the proofreading stage.

Thank you very much in advance for taking these issues into account. I will evaluate the way in which they have been dealt with myself. The updated version of the manuscript, which I look forward to receive, will not be sent out for review again.

Best regards,

Remko Uijlenhoet

Dear authors,

Thank you very much for taking the final suggestions of the reviewers and myself into account. I am happy to accept your manuscript for publication in HESS.

Best regards,

Remko Uijlenhoet