Dear Gutiérrez-Martín,

I have read the comments of the three reviewers and the responses you provided. Two of the three reviewers recommend at least major revisions. Your comments mostly address the main concerns of the reviewers. Therefore, I would like to invite you to incorporate your suggestions in the manuscript and submit a new version. While doing so I would like that you carefully read all provided comments once more and make sure to address each of them. I noticed that, for example, some comments of reviewer 2 deserve more attention, which I explain in more detail in the associated document.

Best regards,
Albert.

Dear Gutiérrez-Martín,

Thank you for submitting your modifications to your manuscript. I have read with pleasure, in detail the manuscript and appreciate your efforts. However, I have included below a few more suggestions to improve the manuscript.

Best regards,
Albert.



• Line 17-18. References shouldn’t be included in an abstract. Please do include them but find better sections (like the introduction) to do so.
• Line 32. Remove ‘the’ such that it reads: ‘…and loss to human life…’
• Line 40. Start new paragraph after ‘Fall et al., 2006).’, (instead of starting this paragraph at line 42-43).
• Line 48. Replace ‘models’ by ‘categories’ such that it reads: ‘Within these categories, we want to highlight….’
• Line 55. Replace ‘next’ by ‘following’ and move reference such that it reads: ‘During the following few decades, Fellenius (1936) introduced…’.
• Line 66. Write out ‘MDE’.
• Line 66. Replace ‘software’ by ‘models like: ’
• Line 70. Replace ‘They are widely..’ by ‘These are widely…’
• Line 74-77. This sentence is hard to read. Maybe rewrite sentence ‘The idea of discretizing… of this model.’, to something like: ‘One of the achievements of the presented study is to discretize the potential slip mass in the critical profile of the slope, once unstable areas have been detected through the HZD programs.’.
• Line 76. Write out ‘HZD’.
• Line 77. Replace ‘This calculation tool….’ to something like: ‘The TS calculation tool is…’
• Line 78. Replace ‘…which others do not allow.’ To something like: ‘…which often other models do not accommodate for.’.
• Line 79. I’m not sure that ‘ru’ is in ‘….Spencer ru we…’. Explain/correct.
• Line 82. Correct ‘… engineering for LAS year.’
• Line 83. Add ‘packages’ so it reads: ‘….commercial software packages like….’
• Line 86-87. ‘are still being studied..’. I’m not sure what you mean by ‘still being studied’. Are you studying them? Please better explain.
• Line 88-89. Rephrase so it reads: ‘Secondly, sometimes for commercial models, the introduction of parameters to perform calculations are not very interactive.’
• Line 107. Rewrite so it reads to something lie: ‘The above-mentioned software packages provide useful tools….’.
• Line 173. Double check, not sure what the word ‘FOS’ means in ‘the slope FOS (FS) can be …..’.
• Line 246-247. I’m unsure what you mean by ‘…, the value of N is entered into the user code, plus divisions of the sliding mass, more accuracy but greater need for computer capacity’. Could amount of detailed information maybe left out? I’m not sure if it adds anything to better explain the study.
• Line 249. Reword the Figure 2 header. Maybe to something like: Figure 2. Idealized cross section of a slope. In this example, the center…’.
• Line 334. Change ‘other model’ to ‘other models’ (so plural).
• Line 338. Replace ‘This model’ by ‘The TS model…’
• Line 343. Replace ‘Our model programme has another advantage…’ to ‘The TS model has an additional advantage…’.
• Line 374-377. Rewrite such that it reads to something like: ‘For this example, we used data of IGN, the Spanish National Geographic Institute (http://centrodedescargas.cnig.es/CentroDescargas), and downloaded bit map MTN25, that is a 1: 25000 topographic map in ETRS 89 coordinates and UTM projection.’.
• Remove line 380-382 ‘The map file…among others,’, and rewrite the rest of the sentence such that it reads: ‘Figure 8 shows the area of the case study.’
• Line 383-384. Rewrite so it reads something like: ‘From this map we obtained the topographic information to acquire all necessary profiles to study the landslide.
• Line 441. Rewrite 2nd sentence so it reads: ‘Rainfall data has been provided by the Meteorological ….’