Dear Simon Horton and co-authors.

Thank you again for the submission of your manuscript “Enhancing the operational value of snowpack models with visualization design principles”.

As you know, three reviewers have now provided detailed reviews, which you have replied in detail to. All reviewers recommended minor revisions and therefore I would like to invite you to submit a revised version of your manuscript.

Would you please also provide an ‘author’s reply’ to the reviewers (feel free to use the same words that you used in what you have already uploaded) and include, in the same author reply document, a track changes document between the old manuscript and the new one.

I look forward to seeing the next version of your manuscript which I will not send out for further review, but rather, will make the decision myself, assuming no major items come up in the revised manuscript for which I need outside reviewers to aid me in my decision.

Regards, Margreth Keiler
[NHESS Editor]
[Associate Professor of Geomorphology, Natural Hazards and Risk Research, University of Bern]

Dear Simon Horton and co-authors.

I am pleased to inform you that the revised version of your manuscript NHESS-2019-344 can now be accepted for publication after few technical corrections in our journal Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS). Please inform your co-authors of the editorial decision.

Technical corrections: Please consider the guidelines of NHESS for the information in the appendix and the labelling of the figures in the appendix and when you refer to this figure and the supplement. Please check already recent published papers in NHESS for providing the correct format.

You will soon be contacted by the journal publication office for the preparation of the final version of your manuscript. Please respond promptly to the requests of the publication office, as this will condition the time of your publication, and read carefully any copy-editing recommendations that they make. Let me remind you that final publication of your paper on the journal web site is subject to the payment of the appropriate service charges. Also, do not forget that as an open-access journal you can freely distribute your paper once it is published.

I take this opportunity to thank you and your co-authors for having selected Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS) for the publication of your scientific work. I look forward to receiving further contributions to our journal from you and your co-authors.

Regards, Margreth Keiler
[NHESS Editor]
[Associate Professor of Geomorphology, Natural Hazards and Risk Research, University of Bern]