Dear Mirlan Daiyrov and Chiyuki Narama

Thank you for the submission of your very interesting manuscript “Water storage and drainage of short-lived lakes in the Teskey Range, Central Asia”.

As you know, two reviewers have now provided very detailed reviews, which you have replied in most cases in detail. Both reviewers recommended major revisions, and 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).
However, I kindly ask you to consider following issues in more detail in your reply
• the major concerns of the reviewer regarding the structure and the clear objective (purpose of study).
• In your response, you answered the questions of the reviewer but I am not aware that you made accordingly changes in the manuscript, thus there is a high possibility that the same questions arise again. Please either make this clearer in the response or make it more clearly in the manuscript.

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.

Regards, Margreth Keiler
[NHESS Editor]
[Associate Professor of Geomorphology, Natural Hazards and Risk Research, University of Bern]

Dear Mirlan Daiyrov and Chiyuki Narama

Thank you for the submission of the revised manuscript “Water storage and drainage of short-lived lakes in the Teskey Range, Central Asia”.

Two reviewers have now provided again detailed reviews on the revised version of the manuscript and both reviewers recommended minor revisions. Therefore, I would like to invite you to submit a revised version of your manuscript and include again the response, the track-change and the new version of the manuscript


I look forward to seeing the next version of your manuscript, which I will review and if I need support I will send it out to one of the reviewers.

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

Dear Mirlan Daiyrov and Chiyuki Narama

I am pleased to inform you that the revised version of your manuscript “Water storage and drainage of short-lived lakes in the Teskey Range, Central Asia” 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]