Reply from the Editor

The sentence in question is also meant as paper specific, which we clarify by formulating as follows: “In this paper, we show how to incorporate into the flood planning process the visible uncertainty from an ensemble of climate projections as well as hidden uncertainties that cannot be quantified from the ensemble itself but may be estimated from literature. In the process of combining these uncertainties, we account for uncertainty and bias in projections as well as for dependencies among different projections.”