Dear authors

Thank you for the re-submission of your interesting manuscript “A cross-scale study for compound flooding processes during Hurricane Florence”.

As you know, three reviewers have now provided detailed reviews, which you have replied in thoughtful detail to. Two of the reviewers recommend major revisions and one recommends minor revisions. Based on the reviews and you initial response, 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’).

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. Please be aware, that this is most likely the last possibility for you to change and improve the manuscript. Thus, I suggest that you carefully go through the manuscript again and improve everything which you still find useful to improve (even if the referees have not pointed it out).

Kind regards
Philip Ward
NHESS Editor
Professor of Global Water Risk Dynamics, VU Amsterdam

Dear authors,

Thank you for the submission of your revised paper to NHESS. Two reviewers have now reviewed your revised manuscript. Reviewer 3 suggests to accept as is and reviewer 1 has a couple of minor comments.

Please could you address the comments or R1, in particular the first comment. You can submit a revised version of your manuscript. Would you please also provide an ‘author’s reply’ to the reviewers. Please can you also include 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.

Please be aware, that this is most likely the last possibility for you to change and improve the manuscript. Thus, I suggest that you carefully go through the manuscript again and improve everything which you still find useful to improve (even if the referees have not pointed it out).


Best regards

Philip Ward

NHESS Editor
Professor of Global Water Risk Dynamics, VU University Amsterdam

Dear authors

I am pleased to inform you that the revised version of your manuscript 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.

Kind regards
Prof. Philip Ward