Dear authors,

Thank you for the submission of your paper “The Risk of Synoptic-Scale Arctic Cyclones to Shipping” to NHESS.

As you know, two reviewers have provided detailed reviews and comments, which you have replied in thoughtful detail to. The reviewers suggest major and 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 then send out for further review to either the previous reviewers (if they agree) or new 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 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 authors,

Thank you for the re-submission of your paper “The Risk of Synoptic-Scale Arctic Cyclones to Shipping” to NHESS.

As you know, the second reviewer of the original manuscript has now reviewed the revised version. The reviewer acknowledges the high-quality of the manuscript and finds that most of the points have been well addressed. The reviewer does have several minor points to be addressed. I have read your original response to reviewer 1 and believe that you have well addressed all of their points.

I would therefore like to invite you to submit a revised version of your manuscript. Would you please also provide an ‘author’s reply’ to the new comments of the reviewer. 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 authors,

I am pleased to inform you that the revised version of your manuscript 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