Dear authors,

We now have all reviews of your paper. As you can see, the reviewers suggest mainly minor revisions and have some good suggestions concerning clarifications of technical details.

Concerning the new material asked for by the reviewers (you addressed me in your reply in one instance), I would ask you to consider moving some of the additional material to the supplement, if in doubt.

I am looking forward to receiving the revised manuscript.

Best regards,
Stefan Brönnimann

Dear authors,

Thank you for submitting the revised manuscript. You have addressed all points raised by the reviewers. There are a few minor issues that I would like you to clarify before the paper can be accepted. They are indicated below.

Best regards,
Stefan Brönnimann

Comments to reviewer 1:
Page 3806: You argue why you do not correct, but this argument should be made not only in the reply, but also in the paper in the corresponding section.

Page 3815: Please add two sentences with regard to VCSN rainfall there.

Comments to reviewer 2:
P3807 and elsewhere ("present period"): I think this is not fully resolved. There are still three version (1972-2010, 1972-2012, 1972-Present) in the text and I agree with the reviewer that it would be helpful to add the period to the Table captions.

Typo in Fig. caption 4: 1939-1843 -> 1839-1843