Climate Scenarios for Coastal Flood Vulnerability Assessments: A Case Study for the Ligurian Coastal Region

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Nil

Author Response

Dear Reviewer,

thank you for your review of our manuscript.

We reviewed our manuscript by taking into account the aspects that have been marked as those that could be improved, also considering suggestions from the other Reviewer and from the Academic Editor of this special issue. We hope to have improved our manuscript's quality. Thank you for your suggestions.

Best regards,

the authors

Reviewer 2 Report

-in the abstract, the background information and findings section should rewrite.

-introduction, section, what kind of vulnerability has been faced by study areas, still missing.

-Line 83; can you please mention the name of frameworks, assessment methodologies, and indices?

-Research gap is missing

-Pls. discuss what other methods did follow by previous authors and what their findings

-pls. briefly mention what is the specialty of the current methods.

-the problem statement should be specific.

-Figure 1; the map can be improved by adding a country map.

-Section 2.3.1. what is the DEM version? Should be mentioned.

-30-year climate data; recommended to use more than 30 years of climate data if possible.

-Figure 2; should be improved the maximum information couldn’t obtain.

-Figure 4; should be reproduced, couldn’t obtain enough information.

-the limitation section should be more concise

-Conclusion also should be more concise and focus on key findings.

-the reference should be updated, add some references from top journals.

Comments for author File: Comments.doc

Author Response

Please see the attached file containing the authors' reply to the reviewer's comments. We plan to attach a reviewed copy of our manuscript, as well as pdf versions where we highlighted the portions that have undergone modifications.

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf