Dear Authors and Colleagues

thanks the referees for the review of the manuscript and the authors for the replies to the reviews of your paper and for the revision.
This is a well published and described multi-functional data set. However, the structure of the manuscript does not yet fulfill the requirements of ESSD and improvements are needed: a major revision of the manuscript and a minor revision related to the data publication is needed
Major Requirements are to restructure the manuscript following the editorial recommendations. Requirements are also to change the license of the published data collections, and to separate the data publication and the Matlab software publication.

I look forward to your revised data publication and ESSD manuscript,
Best wishes, Birgit Heim

Dear Authors and Colleagues
Thank you for your contributions
thanks for the authors for the replies to the reviews of your paper and for the revision. I am sorry that the editorial feedback took long. We consider the ground-based scatterometer year-long, record of an Alpine Meadow over the Tibetan Plateau as a distinct and valuable data publication and ESSD manuscript.
As the new version of the data set and the software publication and the University of Twente repository seems to be accessible only via a password we require the minor revision to provide password-free access to the data set and the code.

I look forward to your final ESSD publication,
Best wishes, Birgit Heim

Dear authors
It is a pleasure to inform you that your article is accepted for publication in Earth System Science Data (ESSD). Congratulations, and thank you for your patience in the review process.