Efficient Hazard Assessment for Pluvial Floods in Urban Environments: A Benchmarking Case Study for the City of Berlin, Germany
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
In this manuscript, the authors conducted a hazard assessment for pluvial floods in urban environments regarding a benchmarking case study for the city of Berlin, Germany. Overall, the manuscript was well written, with a clear storyline, solid methods, and decent results and discussion. A minor suggestion is that the authors shall use the format (XX et al. (20xx) showed) for the literature survey in the Introduction section for the purpose of readability.
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Reviewer 2 Report
My recommendation for this paper is major revision. I do believe it is an interesting paper. But there are some information need to clarify. I have the following questions and suggestions:
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The author states that “The estimation of τ employs the maximum like- lihood method as described in detail by some references paper”. I would like to suggest the author can briefly provide some detail about it in this paper. Because it can help the reader to understand it without reading other reference papers.
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It seems that your Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC) is differernt with the normal formula. Can the author check it? I believe you used the wrong equation.
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Figure 7: it missing a “%”.
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The result based on MCC should be recalculated. Because the MCC formula is wrong.
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You only provide sensitivity in your ananlysis. However, only sensitivity is hard to tell something. Can the author also provide specificity and AUC curve?
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Round 2
Reviewer 2 Report
I thank the authors for responding to each and every one of my comments. They have included my suggestions into the manuscript, and also addressed the more extensive comments from the other reviewer.
