Dear authors,

Thank you very much for addressing both my initial comments/requests in the access review and those of the two reviewers. You have addressed all comments thoroughly and satisfactorily and the paper is much improved.

I am sending the paper back to the two reviewers for them to check your responses, but I find the paper should now be suitable for publication and unless they have major issue I am happy to consider the manuscript for publication.

Please include all the reviewers points and the changes detailed in your responses into the paper.

I have few more additional points from my side for you to consider. Notice also you have not provided the revised Figure 9 in your response to reviewer Huggel.

Comments

In the Introduction, when the authors discuss the existing quantification of elevation changes and mass balance or ice volume changes you should mention the work by Mernild et al (2017), as they calculate surface mass balance for the entire Andes cordillera (using a mass balance model) even if they do not report them specifically. I would be curious to know how their calculations compare with yours (even if of course their period of simulations is much longer, but there are almost ten years of overlap)?



Minor:
_Data: it should be plural, despite large use as singular, especially in American English. I would suggest correcting that throughout.

_Glaciated: I would replace with glacierised.

_Line 99: would you have some more references for the effect of La Nina and El Nino? This seems an important effect after all.

_Line 31 page 1: it is known to cause socio-economic issues: either provide one or more references for this (to justify the “It is known to”) or change into will likely cause…

_Please check the correctness of all your references in the Bibliography. I think some are needs some proof, e.g. Silverio and Jaquet, a capital A is needed.

_Line 81, provide the standard deviation or coefficient of variation of the annual temperature, to back your statement of almost no seasonality

_Line 83 and related to the above: what is an annual seasonality of 4°C? I mean, what is the 4°C and how is the seasonality defined/calculated?

_Sometimes you use Therefore in a bit inappropriate way, e.g. line 206. It could just be removed. Please check through the manuscript.

_Line 108: change DEMS are applied into are differentiated, or used to calculate…. Applying a DEM is a weird expression.


REFERENCES

Mernild et al. The Andes Cordillera. Part III: glacier surface mass balance and contribution to sea level rise (1979–2014), INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY