Dear Joy Ommer et al.,

Thank you for the submission of your very interesting manuscript “Surprise floods: the role of our imagination in preparing for disasters”.

As you know, two reviewers have now provided detailed reviews, which you have replied in 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) 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 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 wishes,
Dr Robert Sakic Trogrlic

Dear Joy Ommer and co-authors,

I am pleased to inform you that the revised version of your manuscript EGUSPHERE-2024-296 can now be accepted for publication in our journal Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS) after integrating a final correction (please see below). Please inform your co-authors of the editorial decision.

Before final publication, I would kindly ask you for another small adjustment in the paper. The presentation of your paper would greatly benefit from a map of your case study area, and I would appreciate if you could add this.

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,

Dr Robert Sakic Trogrlic
NHESS Editor

Dear Joy Ommer and co-authors,

many thanks for your quick reply and providing the map. However, in it's current form, it is not informative enough. Before the final acceptance, can you please: a) insert the longitute and latitude indications on the map, and b) insert the names of the regions (at the moment, it is uncleae which region is where on the map).

Many thanks,

Best wishes,
Dr Robert Sakic Trogrlic

Dear Joy Ommer and co-authors,

I am pleased to inform you that the revised version of your manuscript EGUSPHERE-2024-296 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,

Dr Robert Sakic Trogrlicc
NHESS Editor

Dear author(s),

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