Dear Authors,

All three reviewers raised a number of aspects that could be clarified or expanded in order to improve the manuscript. Especially the novelty of this particular analysis of compound flooding should be highlighted more strongly while at the same time clarifying some methodological aspects.

On this basis I would like to invite you to submit an updated version of your manuscript following a major revision.

Dear Authors,

your manuscript has now been refereed by one of the original reviewers and one additional reviewer. You will see that some open points remain that require further revisions before I can make a final decision. Furthermore, one of the reviewers criticised that the title is very similar to that of Hendry et al. (2019) already published in HESS and mentioned that this maybe done on purpose but it also indicates the lack of scientific novelty in this contribution. Therefore, in your revised version please consider changing the title to highlight which novel aspects your contribution contains.

I'm looking forward to receiving your revised manuscript.
Jakob Zscheischler

Dear Authors,

thanks you for addressing all remaining comments by the reviewers. I'm now happy to accept this manuscript for publication in HESS.

Best regards,
Jakob Zscheischler