Dear Dr. Butler,

In considering your response and revised manuscript, I wish to suggest the following modifications to your manuscript prior to consideration for acceptance for publication.

As emphasized in the response to Reviewer 2 "...the intent was to provide these high resolution data to the larger meteorological modeling community for comparison against simulations. It is our intent that these data inform the development of high resolution near surface wind flow models."

I think this goal would be better supported by including those data in a supplement and in some distilled form within the paper. In particular, I agree with Reviewer 1 on points 4, 6, and 8 that the information that is requested should be provided to modelers directly, not left for them to analyze or infer from an online dataset.

Whether these tables are presented in a Supplement or within the text body itself would be at your discretion.

As an editorial comment, I would suggest that the writing would be clarified if the paragraphs were broken up. I see at least three clear paragraphs in the first paragraph of the Introduction, for example.

Regards,

Tim Garrett