Dear Eva Steirou and co-authors,

Thank you for posting your responses to the three referees’ reports. The reviews are quite favorable, but they also raised some important comments and suggestions that I urge you to consider as I have confident that they will improve the quality of the manuscript. Based on my own reading, I find this to be an interesting paper that fits the scope of HESS well and will be of interest to the community.

In addition to the comments from the reviewers, I kindly ask you to add "Author contribution" and "Data availability" sections to the manuscript, as indicated in the guidance for authors (see https://www.hydrology-and-earth-system-sciences.net/for_authors/manuscript_preparation.html).

I invite you to upload a revised manuscript, incorporating the proposed changes and additions, and making any other modifications where you see fit (‘publish subject to revisions’). I look forward to receiving the revised manuscript.

Sincerely,
Nadav Peleg

Dear Eva Steirou and co-authors,

Reading the revised manuscript, and based on the reports from the three referees, I am pleased to inform you that your manuscript has now been accepted for publication in HESS.

Thank you for your contribution and best regards,
Nadav