Dear Authors - thank you for submitting your revised m/s. From my reading it appears that the revisions satisfactorily address all the concerns raised by the two reviewers. However, I noticed one oversight that should be addressed before the paper is published: you assume GlobSnow provides an unbiased estimate of SWE for your comparison in Figure 8 and discussion of results in Section 3.2. However, the documentation for the GlobSnow SWE product(http://www.globsnow.info/docs/GS2_SWE_ATBD.pdf) shows that it has an exponentially increasing bias with values exceeding 100 mm for observed SWE > 200 mm (an issue with all passive microwave based SWE algorithms). Mean annual maximum SWE values exceed 200 mm over much of Quebec and Labrador, and GlobSnow has been shown to underpredict SWE over this region (Langlois et al. 2014).

This bias should be documented in Section 2.4.5 of your m/s and taken into account in your discussion of Jules performance in Section 3.2.

Best regards, Ross Brown

A. Langlois, J. Bergeron, R. Brown, A. Royer, R. Harvey, A. Roy, L. Wang, and N. Thériault, 2014: Evaluation of CLASS 2.7 and 3.5 Simulations of Snow Properties from the Canadian Regional Climate Model (CRCM4) over Québec, Canada. J. Hydrometeor, 15, 1325–1343.
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-13-055.1

Thanks for the prompt response and congratulations on your publication in TC. You won't be needing the additional reference material I sent!

Best regards, Ross B