Dear Authors,

based on the comments posted by the referees and your reply I invite you to submit a properly revised version of the manuscript.

In particular the referees pointed out some abbreviations and acronyms not properly defined and also an improvement of the figures and coherence between figures is needed.

The referee #2 also highlights the need of a more quantitative analysis to compare the EVI trajectories and some works should be done in this direction.

Regarding the answer n 8 to the reviewer 2, I guess the authors refer to daytime averages of the indices and not daily averages. Otherwise the results can be seasonally biased by variations in day-length.

Another important point raised by the referees for the comparison of phenocam and MODIS in Savannahs is the role of fractional cover and understory phenology, and I would add the spatial heterogeneity within the MODIS pixel and representativity of the field of view of the camera. I guess in your sites is not a big issue but more detailed discussion is needed.
Looking forward to hearing from you.

Best regards

Dear Authors,

the points raised by the reviewers were properly addressed.
Please find below a series of minor comments that need to be addressed before publishing the article.
Best regards
Mirco Migliavacca

MINOR COMMENTS

Captions Figure 2-6: please change the reference to Fig 2 (it should be Figure 1). The authors refer to the site number reported in Figure 1 but in the caption is reported Fig 2.

Reviewer #1 suggested to include the Köppen classification. Although in the answer is reported that Figure 1 was changed accordingly I cannot see the Köppen classes in the Figure.

The acronym of New South Wales is NWS, is this correct?

Comment #6 of Referee 1: please consider to include more explanations about the different phenology observed in Fig 2 for each tree species in the text. It could be very informative for the reader. I found interesting the discussion reported in the answer but the text added to the manuscript is not as detailed.

Figure 5 – In the caption is reported "GCC_Win" for the TimeLapseCam wingscapes but in the y axis of is reported GCC (Wingscapes). The same for "GCC_Rpi". Please be consistent and use either one or the other in both the y axis and the caption.

Check throughout the manuscript the consistency between “Fig” and “Fig.”

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