Dear Dr. Davolio and colleagues

Manuscript EGUSPHERE-2025-3447 entitled "Detection of atmospheric rivers affecting the Mediterranean and producing extreme rainfall over northern-central Italy" which you submitted to be published in our journal NHESS, has been reviewed by two referees. We have not received any further comments during the public phase that has just ended. Having read the reviewers' comments and responses, I am pleased to inform you that your article can be published once the minor changes requested by the reviewers have been made.

I would like to invite you to prepare a revised manuscript considering carefully the comments and suggestions made by both referees. With your revised manuscript, be sure to provide the author's reply which includes (i) a separate list with your responses to the comments of the referees (this can be similar or the same as the replies you gave online already, but you might find that some of your answers have now changed in preparing the revised manuscript); (ii) as part of your author reply (same document please) please provide a detailed (preferably using track changes) list of all the changes made to the text. By providing a detailed author's reply (where you go through each comment of the reviewers and tell the reviewers and myself how you replied) AND a track change document of what has changed, it will make the next step much faster.

Once I receive all of the above, and given that the changes are minor, I will personally review the article and confirm whether it can be published as submitted.

I apologize again for the lengthy review process, which was due to the difficulty in finding reviewers. I feel confident that your article will be accepted for publication in Natural Hazards and Earth System Science.

Sincerely,
Prof. Maria Carmen Llasat

Dear Dr. Davolio and colleagues

I am pleased to inform you that the revised version of your manuscript EGUSPHERE-2025-3447 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,

Maria Carmen Llasat