Dear Dr. Ayse Duha Metin and coauthors,
Thank you for your submission of “The role of spatial dependence for large-scale flood risk estimation” to NHESS Discussion (NHESS-D). As you know, two reviewers have now provided detailed reviews, which you have replied in detail to. Both reviewers highlight the quality of your paper and only recommended minor 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) 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

Best Regards
Maria Carmen Llasat
NHESS editor

Dear Dr. Ayse Duha Metin,
After reading the responses to the reviewers and the new version of your paper, I am pleased to inform you that the revised version of your manuscript “The role of spatial dependence for large-scale flood risk estimation” can now be accepted for publication in our journal Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS). Please inform your co-authors of the editorial decision.

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.

Sincerely,

Maria Carmen Llasat
NHESS Editor