Dear Drs. Gonéri Le Cozannet et al.,

Thank you for the submission of your very interesting manuscript “Timescales of emergence of chronic nuisance flooding in the major economic centre of Guadeloupe”.

As you know, two reviewers have now provided detailed reviews, which you have replied in thoughtful detail to. Both reviewers recommended 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’).

In addition to the suggestions from the reviewers, I would like to suggest the following major issue:

Your research on the specific case is excellent. However, it is not explicitly described, ‘why should someone outside of your study area be interested in the results’. If you were to explain the results of your case study to someone in another area, what would they gain from your case study? Do they learn from your methodology and what you encountered when applying it? What is novel and what might they learn? This needs to be explicitly described both at the beginning so we understand, but also in discussion.


This comment may intersect with one of the reviewers.

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.

Regards
Animesh Gain
NHESS Editor

Dear Drs. Gonéri Le Cozannet et al.,

Thank you for the revised submission of your very interesting manuscript “Timescales of emergence of chronic nuisance flooding in the major economic centre of Guadeloupe”.

In the revised version, the manuscript has significantly been improved. Your research on the specific case is excellent. However, before the acceptance of the manuscript, the following issues need to be resolved:

1. It is not explicitly described, ‘why should someone outside of your study area be interested in the results’. If you were to explain the results of your case study to someone in another area, what would they gain from your case study? Do they learn from your methodology and what you encountered when applying it? What is novel and what might they learn? This (how the innovative idea of your study can be transferred to others, along with challenges) needs to be explicitly described both at the beginning so we understand, but also in discussion. This is crucial for accepting the manuscript. The existing explanation is not sufficiently satisfactory.

2. In paragraph 420 (Discussion section), you introduced 'it would be interesting to build upon the experience of Mayotte'. ... 'Mayotte could become a natural laboratory'. How Mayotte case became suddenly important, without providing any context.

Considering the above issues (specifically transferability of your methods), I would like to invite you to submit a revised version of your manuscript.

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.

Regards
Animesh Gain
NHESS Editor

Dear Dr. Le Cozannet et al.,

I am pleased to inform you that the revised version of your manuscript NHESS-2020-178 (Timescales of emergence of chronic flooding in the major economic centre of Guadeloupe) 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,

Animesh Gain
NHESS Editor