Dear Si Wang et al,

Thank you for the submission of your manuscript “Assessing and zoning of typhoon storm surge risk with GIS technique: A case study of the coastal area of Huizhou".

As you know, two reviewers have now provided detailed reviews, which you have replied in detail to. Both reviewers recommended minor to medium revisions and therefore I would like to invite you to submit a revised version of your manuscript. In particular, in addition to methodological concerns, can you focus on ensure that an intelligent layperson can follow and reproduce all aspects of your web-GIS tool?

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.

Regards
Amy Donovan
NHESS Editorial Board

Dear Si Wang et al

Thank you for the submission of your manuscript “Assessing and zoning of typhoon storm surge risk with GIS technique: A case study of the coastal area of Huizhou".

As you know, two reviewers have now provided detailed reviews, which you have replied in detail to. Both reviewers recommended minor to medium revisions and therefore I would like to invite you to submit a revised version of your manuscript. Please take into account all the reviewers' comments in the revised MS.

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 and will send it out again to the previous reviewers.

Regards
Amy Donovan
NHESS Editorial Board

Dear Dr Wang
I am pleased to inform you that the revised version of your manuscript NHESS-2020-130 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,
Amy Donovan
NHESS Editorial Board