Dear Mr. Aerts and coauthors
Thank you for the submission of your very interesting manuscript “Global flood hazard map and exposed GDP comparison: a China case study”.
As you know the process of peer review and publication in Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS) is a two-stage process involving the scientific discussion forum Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences Discussions (NHESSD). The first stage, corresponding to the open discussion has ended. The reviewers have already sent their comments and you have posted your comments as a response to them (in this case no more short comments of the scientific community have been received). Thank you very much. From now on begins the second stage that follows the usual and non-public peer-reviewed process. I would like to remind you that the pass to the second stage is no guarantee whatsoever that the paper will be accepted for publication in NHESS. This will depend on the comments of the referees, and your ability to respond properly to the comments received.
The first reviewer recommended minor revisions and the second one has asked for major revisions. 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). Please can you also include a track changes document between the old manuscript and the new one (you can include this as part of your ‘author’s reply’). If we read the comments of the second reviewer, it is very important to note that what you have changed in the article in order to clarify its purpose and novelty. According to your answer, you consider that it is not necessary to carry out a sensitivity analysis since the study is done "from a pure practitioners perspective". In this case I ask you to either in the conclusions or in another section add a flow chart or diagram that will be useful for decision making and summarize the results of the study
I look forward to seeing the next version of your manuscript which I will then send out for further review to either the previous reviewers (if they agree) or new reviewers.
Sincerely Yours
María Carmen Llasat
Professor of Atmospheric Sciences
NHESS Editor

Dear Mr. Aerts and coauthors
Thank you very much for the new version of your paper “Global flood hazard map and exposed GDP comparison: a China case study”. The referees have been satisfied with the responses and revisions made by you to their comments and have suggested that the paper can be accepted already in this form. I agree with them. Consequently, it is a pleasure for me telling you that your paper has been accepted to be published as it is.

Hoping to receive more contributions from you in the near future,

Kind regards
Prof. Maria Carmen Llasat
NHESS editor