Impact of Climate and Geology on Event Runoff Characteristics at the Regional Scale

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The English of the abstract needs to be improved.

Lines 16-18: Please remove etc. It does not sound good for an introductionary sentence.

Line 18: Please avoid starting a sentence with ‘For ….,’

Line 82: Publishing date is missing from reference

Table 2: Align the rows to each other. The format needs corrections.

Lines 358 – 361: This sentence is very ambitious. That the study of the manuscript supports the hypothesis that larger event runoff coefficients in the catchments are related to high mean annual precipitation. The other evidence related to co-evolution feedbacks cannot be concluded from this study. Please revise.

It would be nice to include an outlook in the last section of the manuscript including the meaning for the future runoff.

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Reviewer 2 Report

The paper reports a very interesting and detailed investigation. Field measurements are adequately described and interpreted in order to return significant insights to the Reader. The analysis is accurate and well shown. Minor issues can be retrieved:

L13: check email address

Abstract

L20: At this stage, it is not clear how “maps of hydro-geologic runoff process types” are retrievable

L23: high values of Rc and Qp are not direct consequence of high annual rainfall value; please rephrase

L28: 50mm for which time span?

Introduction: please arrange the text in order to highlight the differences between scales where land use regulates the phenomena (varying on multiannual scale) and scales where dynamics are driven by state variables (e.g. antecedent conditions)

L75: probably, if temperature or other atmospheric forcing are not taken into account, you could use “rainfall patterns” instead of “climate”

Table 1- it is important to stress that 12 years could be not sufficient to characterize the rainfall patterns and the interannual variability; average value of maximum precipitation on several time scales could be an interesting information

Figure 2: it should be clearer to overlap rainfall and runoff annual trends

Table 2: please reorganize the table to set the rows

Table 3: if possible, please insert 5^th and 95^th percentiles or similar ones (minimum and maximum could be misleading)

Figure 6 and following: please check typo for precipitations

Author Response

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