Dear Manuela Brunner, András Bárdossy and Reinhard Furrer,

Thank you for posting your responses to the three referees’ reports and to the comments made by Francesco Serinaldi, Ioannis Tsoukalas, and Panayiotis Dimitriadis. The reviews are quite favorable, but they also raised several comments and suggestions that I urge you to consider as I believe they will further improve the quality of the manuscript. I do agree with the author's goal to keep the stochastic model simple and flexible for the end users, therefore I expect the revisions to be expressed in text edits rather than changes to the model itself. Based on my own reading, I find this technical note to be well written and relevant for many hydrologists. It fits the scope of HESS well and I am sure it will be of interest to the community.

I invite you to upload a revised manuscript, incorporating the proposed changes and additions, and making any other modifications where you see fit. I look forward to receiving the revised text.

Sincerely,
Nadav Peleg

Dear Manuela,

Thank you for revising the manuscript. After reading the revised manuscript, 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