Dear G.S. Mohor, A.H. Thieken, and O. Korup

Thank you again for the submission of your paper “Residential flood loss estimated from Bayesian multilevel models” to NHESS.

As you know, two reviewers have now provided detailed reviews, which you have replied in thoughtful detail to. Both reviewers recommended minor revisions, although I have a feeling some of the revisions suggested are not so minor--they may take a bit of time! Therefore, I recommended “major revisions” and 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 and include a track changes document between the old manuscript and the new one (you can include this as part of your ‘author’s reply’).

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.

Regards, D. Molinari
NHESS Editor

Dear G.S. Mohor, A.H. Thieken, and O. Korup

I am pleased to inform you that the revised version of your manuscript NHESS-2013-26 can now be accepted for publication in our journal Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS).

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, D. Molinari
NHESS Editor