Dear Hillary,
many thanks for the revised manuscript; it has improved significantly with some issues remaining. I marked these as comments in the pdf.

Please note for potential future submissions to TC to include a document where all changes are indicated. The provided pdf did not show all of your changes. For example, revised text (sometimes entire paragraphs) were only shown as one deleted word (for example, on page 3, second paragraph, sentence 13, the deleted text appeared only as “It”).
Many thanks again,
Julia

Dear Hillary and co authors,

many thanks for considering my comments.
Some minor further corrections remain:
- the unit of annual precipitation is still not correct in the paper (correct:
35 mm yr-1)
- please check the format of the new added references again (for example, page 11)
Julia