Dear Benedetta Dini et al.,

Thank you for the submission of your very interesting manuscript “ “Beyond and Beneath Displacement Time Series: Towards InSAR-Based Early Warnings and Deformation Analysis of the Achoma Landslide, Peru”

As you know, your manuscript has now received the comments from two referees, which you have replied in thoughtful detail to. Both referees praised the quality of your work. One asks for technical revision and one asks for major revision.

Considering the description of the critical points by the referees and your detailed replies, I have decided that your manuscript can be improved without the need to go for further review by referees.

However, as mentioned by referees, the manuscript needs some improvements before it can be considered suitable for publication. In the revised version, make sure that the issues raised by the referees are whenever possible used to improve the text. I am confident that you will find no difficulties in implementing those changes. Therefore, I would like to invite you to submit a revised version of your manuscript.


Together with a revised version of your manuscript, would you please also provide an ‘author’s reply’ to the referees (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 technical item for:
• Figure 1: Added to the map, could a field photo of the landslide be provided? It would always be informative. Also I would provide some elevation quotes to be able to better grasp the topographic context. In the caption, provide information about the date of the GE imagery.

I look forward to seeing the next version of your manuscript which I will make the decision myself, assuming no major items come up in the revised manuscript for which I need outside referees to aid me in my decision.

Kind regards,

Olivier Dewitte
NHESS Editor

Dear Benedetta Dini et al.,

I am pleased to inform you that the revised version of your manuscript “Beyond and Beneath Displacement Time Series: Towards InSAR-Based Early Warnings and Deformation Analysis of the Achoma Landslide, Peru” can now be accepted for publication in our journal NHESS. Please inform your co-authors of the editorial decision.

For the final version, I would like to suggest the following about Lines 42-43 that need rephrasing I think. Knowing that the values by Petley come with caveats and biases, here is what I would suggest: “Lanslides pose a global threat, causing thousands of fatalities annually (Petley, 2012; Froude and Petley, 2018).

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 for having selected NHESS for the publication of your scientific work.

Sincerely,

Olivier Dewitte

NHESS Editor