Dear Chiara Arrighi, Maria Pregnolato, and Fabio Castelli


Thank you for the submission of your very interesting manuscript “Indirect flood impacts and cascade risk across interdependent linear infrastructures”

As you know, two reviewers have now provided detailed reviews, which you have replied in thoughtful detail to. The reviewers suggested minor and major revision, I decided for major revision because I have a feeling some of the revisions suggested are not so minor--they may take a bit of time! 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’).

In addition to the suggestions from the reviewers, I would like to suggest the following technical items, in most cases ‘minor’:

(a) Methods and Concept. As one of the reviewer already stress, please elaborate the concept of your study in more detail as well as the description of your applied methods.
(b) The caption of figures and tables should be written that they provide all information for the figure and the table as stand-alone without the need to refer to the text. Please check this for all figures and tables and add in the caption the missing abbreviations used in the table or figure. Furthermore, the sources of the maps is missing in the figure captions
(c) Please check the guidelines of NHESS and apply them (e.g. internet links in the text)

Some of my comments may intersect with those of the reviewers.

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, Margreth Keiler
[NHESS Editor]
[Professor for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research, University Innsbruck & Austrian Academy of Sciences]

Dear Chiara Arrighi, Maria Pregnolato, and Fabio Castelli

I am pleased to inform you that the revised version of your manuscript NHESS-2020-371 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.

Best regards, Margreth Keiler
[NHESS Editor]
[Professor for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research, University Innsbruck & Austrian Academy of Sciences]