Dear Authors,
Thank you for your efforts in responding to the reviewer comments. Based on the referee reports and your responses, I would like to invite you to prepare a revised version of your manuscript. Please note that the revised manuscript will undergo a second round of peer-review by the referees prior to being considered for publication in TC.
Best regards,
Emily Collier

Dear Authors,

Thank you for your efforts in revising your manuscript, and for your patience with the long delay in making a decision, for which I would like to offer my sincere apologies. After receiving a review on the revised manuscript, I would like to invite you to prepare both a response and a final version of your manuscript, which will be assessed expediently by myself prior to being published in TC.

Thank you and best regards,
Emily Collier

Dear Authors,

Thank you for your responses and revisions in the second round of review! I am pleased to see your interesting manuscript published in TC. For the final version, I would kindly request that you make a few last technical corrections:

1. Line 27: "stationary"
2. Line 71: remove "where"
3. Line 135: Table 2 has not yet been referenced in text as far as I can see, and so the reader does not know where to find the value for z_lim.
4. Please indicate briefly why the specific dates in Figure 11 are selected.
5. Discussion:
- I agree with the reviewers that there is uncertainty added in the way precipitation and cloud cover are distributed over sub-daily timescales. I kindly request that you include a brief caveat in the discussion about the assumptions made and their appropriateness.
- Line 500: I suggest changing "choice of parameters" to something more general like "calibration approach" and briefly mentioning that the issue of equifinality has not been addressed in this study.

Congratulations and thanks for the nice work!
Best regards,
Emily Collier