Interactive comment on “The temporally varying roles of rainfall, snowmelt and soil moisture for debris flow initiation in a snow dominated system: the compound trigger concept” by Karin

obvious and possibly over-rated. As matter of fact, Authors have honestly demonstrated (and clearly synthetized in Fig. 7) that in the majority of the debris flows cases they have considered there is a “dominant” trigger (which in most cases is, as usual, precipitation). Thus, despite their modelling effort, I have the feeling that still it is impossible to demonstrate/quantify, without having field monitoring data, the extent to which the other factors where co-influential at the time of triggering.