Dear colleague,
thanks for your comments to two reviewers. Referee 2 was not generally too satisfied with your responses and particularly he mentioned following point: "One of my first points, and a major one, was that the paper should include more detail on the source material, including the type, certainty, and socio-political context. The authors' response is that a discussion "covering the region of the upper Rhine with its eventful history and an actual count of nearly 3000 described floods way overshoots the possibilities" of the paper. That is indeed correct, but that is not what I meant. I suggested that the sources directly used by the authors should be discussed in much more detail, as these sources are not unproblematic. I feel the authors did not get that meaning from my comments, which worries me as they seem to misjudge the value of their historical material, or at least the need to be more critical about it." There is necessary to take this serious comment in account and improve the paper also in this direction.
Because of a high number of comments in the review 1, I would like to ask you to prepare a revised version (in Word it is OK) of the manuscript where you will clearly identify in a red colour all changes with respect to the original manuscript. Based on this revised manuscript, final decision will be done. I believe you have a good potential to improve the paper in requested directions to be finally accepted for publication.
With many thanks for your work and best regards,
Rudolf Brazdil

Dear authors,
revised version of your paper for HESS was reviewed by two reviewers. While the second reviewer had no additional comments to this article, the first one is asking to do some further revisions (see pdf attached). From this reason I would like to ask you to respond point-by-point to every reviewers comments in separate file (how you included them) and prepare final revised manuscript with corresponding last corrections. Based on your responses I will decide about final acceptance of your manuscript for HESS.
With many thanks and best regards
Rudolf Brazdil

Dear authors,
after your last revision the paper is finally accepted for publication in SI HESS. We would like to thank you for your contribution to this special issue.
With best regards,
Rudolf Brazdil