Dear authors,

Thank you for the submission of your replies to the review comments.

As you know, two reviewers have provided detailed reviews and comments, which you have replied in thoughtful detail to. Reviewer 1 suggested to accept the manuscript as is, but posed several comments to consider for revision. Reviewer 2 suggested several minor revisions.

I would like to invite you to submit a revised version of your manuscript, based on the revisions that you suggested in your replies to the reviewers. 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 anything which you still find useful to improve (even if the referees have not pointed it out).

Would you please also provide an ‘author’s reply’ to the reviewers and other comments (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.

Best regards
Philip Ward

Dear authors,

I am pleased to inform you that the revised version of your manuscript NHESS-2019-41 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,
Philip Ward
NHESS Editor
Professor of Global Water Risk Dynamics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam