Technical corrections and clarifications:

Figures 1 - 8 are mislabeled as Figures 9 - 16 in the figure captions of the revised manuscript, please correct.

Results for the MSEbest model are included in Figures 1-2 and 8 and discussed in line 318, but this model is not defined in the manuscript. Please include a brief definition and/or reference.

The symbols for the last two variables in Equation 6 (presumably sigma) are not displaying correctly in the revised manuscript. Please correct.

Lines 262 – 264 and liens 367 - 371: Please clarify if the spatial averaging of the time series was performed prior to or after spectral decomposition and error apportionment. If it was performed prior to spectral decomposition, this likely would suppress the variance of the ID component which is more uncorrelated in space than the other components and would therefore tend to average out. In contrast, if the spectral decomposition and error apportionment was performed separately at each station and the resulting error apportionment results were then averaged in space, the contribution of the ID variance error on the total error might be a bit higher. In other words, whichever approach was chosen may affect the discussion of the ID variance results in lines 367 – 371 and should be referenced in that context.

Editorial corrections:

Lines 18 and 27: change "process" to "processes"

Line 342: change "portioning" to "partitioning"

Line 362: change "can reveal more informative" to "can be more informative"

Line 428: change "analysis" to "analyse"

Line 430: should the parenthesis say "(and what type of error)"? Also change "if exists" to "if it exists"

Line 432: insert "it" before "provides" and change "discriminates" to "distinguishes"

Line 472: insert "to be" after "seems". Consider changing "more"