Dear Authors,
Thank you for your careful responses to the reviewer comments. I would like to invite you to submit a revised manuscript, which will be evaluated by myself and possibly by one reviewer, depending on the extent of the changes.
Best regards,
Emily Collier

Dear Authors,

Thank you for revising your manuscript in response to reviewer comments. The manuscript is nicely improved and will make an interesting and topical contribution to the scientific community.

Prior to final publication in TC, I would kindly request a few small changes:
1. Could you please clarify what is meant by forecast albedo?
2. Section 4.1: Although the focus of the paper is intercomparison of ML approaches, this section would benefit from the inclusion of available literature on ERA5-Land performance in complex terrain. Some relevant papers might be:
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.129384
- https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.907730
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.127353
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169809520313028
- Specific to downscaling: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2021WR031294
3. Section 4.3: Consistent with Reviewer 2's comments, I suggest mentioning the caveat that using only annual mass balance data could impact the analysis of feature importance for the accumulation and ablation months. I also suggest explicitly discussing what is known or expected about orographic precipitation in ERA5-Land as opposed to referring to data scale.
4. Please provide a more descriptive name for the supplementary sheet as well as a small caption for the data that are presented. I suggest also mentioning any sensitivity studies that were performed (e.g., using Leaky ReLU) and their results in the supplement.

Thank you and best regards,
Emily Collier

Dear Authors,
Thank you for your responses and final small revisions. I am pleased to accept your manuscript for publication in TC. Congratulations on your interesting and topical paper!
Best regards,
Emily Collier