Thank you very much for your replies to the reviewers' comments and the revised manuscript. Although uploading a revised manuscript would not have been required at this stage, I think that it is indeed very helpful. Following the rules of our interactive public peer review process, you will nevertheless receive an email in a moment from now that invites you to submit a revised manuscript which may then undergo further review.

As I had only briefly mentioned in my initial editor's report, in my opinion it would be good if you could also consider the following points in your revised manuscript. I only now realize that I should have already reiterated these points as part of the public discussion.

In the abstract the performance of the HZWD is compared to the performance of the GPT2w and the UNB3m model. If I understand it right, the HZWD requires additional input data that is not required by the other two models. I suggest to mention this in the last sentence of the abstract. You could for example write "however, unlike the GPT2w and the UNB3m model, the HZWD model requires information on the vertical distribution of water vapor." Alternatively, the point that the HZWD model requires additional input data should be mentioned explicitly in the discussion section. In case you strongly disagree on this, I would appreciate if you could briefly comment on this point, perhaps after your revised manuscript has undergone a second round of review (which allows the reviewers to react to your responses). Also optionally, you could consider whether you want to mention or briefly discuss the potential of numerical weather forecasts to provide this information in the conclusion section.

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Thank you very much for submitting a revised manuscript. The reviewer report contains suggestions for minor corrections, and I would appreciate if you could address these suggestions. Once you have addressed these points, the manuscript can be published without further review. Please let us know in case you have questions.