Dear Dr. Wing, dear Ollie,

Thank you for the submission of your paper “Simulating historical flood events at the continental-scale: observational validation of a large-scale hydrodynamic model” to NHESS.

As you know, two reviewers have provided detailed reviews and comments, which you have replied in thoughtful detail to. Both reviewers suggest minor 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). 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 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 Dr. Wing, dear Ollie,

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). 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

Philip Ward

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