Very many improvements from original manuscript, thank you. Author team will need to work carefully with Copernicus publishing team during proof-reading, to correct remaining language-based inconsistencies. Authors may need to consider consulting with a native English technical writer.

Small additional changes:

Line 185: "five datasets used in this study" but Table 1 lists only 4? The rain gauge from hydrological network seem missing? Mentioned again as an independent evaluation data set at lines 373, 374, etc?

Line. 242 and Table 2: Term MAE in text does not (but should) match term ME in Table 2?

Line 269, Figure 2: Units in this figure? mm/day? mm/month? mm/year?

Lines 264-266 - "Though AIMERG is smaller than IMERG over most regions, there are still some areas where the volumes of AIMERG are larger than those of IMERG, e.g., in western Tibetan Plateau, Middle East, and along the western coast of India". Figure 2d does not show this pattern?

Figure 2: confusing to have background ocean (= bathymetry?) included in this and other figures. Better to mask the ocean with no or white-only color? Or solid color as in Figure 11?

Line 395, Figure 10 especially hourly insets remains hard to read at any reasonable zoom level.

Line 411, Figure 11: No explanation for top three panels (a, b, c).

Line 458, Figure 13: Units for panel c of Figure 13 should be ratio, not mm/month?

Line 535, Figure 14: Here a reader needs to go back and forth between Figure 11 and Figure 14 to understand the differences between AIMERG and GSMaP for this particular typhoon. Authors should provide a better, easier comparison?

Lines 540 to 542- recommendations for other regions. Readers may agree with this statement but do authors feel confident about availability or quality of high-resolution gauge data for these other regions? For Japan, perhaps yes? Monsoon India, perhaps? Middle East perhaps not? Authors, as regional experts, can provide some guidance here?

Page 57, list of acronyms, welcome helpful addition!

Difficult, challenging work, requires some final 'smoothing' of language. Overall, a good product for ESSD.