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A Rapid Assessment Method to Identify Potential Groundwater Flooding Hotspots as Sea Levels Rise in Coastal Cities

Water 2019, 11(11), 2228; https://doi.org/10.3390/w11112228
by Ellen Plane 1,*, Kristina Hill 1,* and Christine May 2
Reviewer 1: Anonymous
Reviewer 2: Anonymous
Water 2019, 11(11), 2228; https://doi.org/10.3390/w11112228
Submission received: 21 August 2019 / Revised: 2 October 2019 / Accepted: 18 October 2019 / Published: 25 October 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Water Management and Urban Flooding)

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The manuscript titled “A rapid assessment method for identifying groundwater flooding risks driven by sea level rise in coastal cities” by Plane et al. presented an interesting topic which should be assessed under the background of accelerated sea level rising. The data and results illustration are good. However, as a scientific research paper, this manuscript should add some more information.

Data quality control and standardization. Since the data set covers a large area and time period, how to do the standardization to eliminate the impact of human activity? Being the densely heavily developed area, the ground water pumping and other coastal engineering activity can greatly impact geological feature. Some data quality control should be included. Validation of the results. More information should be added for evaluating the results It is important to evaluate the sea-level rise effect on groundwater. The method used in this paper need to be introduced more clearly, and more importantly, add some words to indicate its implication to other similar coastal area. Conclusion should be revised to make it more clearly and concisely.

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Reviewer 2 Report

This manuscript discusses seawater level rise and ground water flooding risks. Good organization of research with great figures!

And I am sure, it could make big interest to the readers!

 

My comments (but minor comment) are following,

The better understanding could be made, if you can include well organized chart to show the trend of SLR. The research procedure is not clear for me. I think a flow chart to describe overall structure of research should be included. You mentioned the flood risk at the title of manuscript. It could be better to show the risk itself with figures.

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

The authors' revision have addressed all my concerns.

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