Interactive Discussion

Interactive comment on “Modelling soil erosion at European scale: towards harmonization and reproducibility ” by Bosco et al: reply to Anonymous Referee #3 C. Bosco, D. de Rigo, O. Dewitte, J. Poesen, and P. Panagos We would like here to provide our reply to the observations reported by the Anonymous referee #3 on our manuscript. [Comment] – “The study is quite interesting, but it is not in the main scope of NHESS and should not be included in the journal. Soil erosion is not a natural hazard”. [Reply] – Soil erosion is widely recognised as a natural hazard (Rawat et al., 2011; Gares et al., 1994; Mather, 1982). Several papers on this topic have already been published in NHESS (e.g. Chang and Zhang (2010), Diodato et al. (2009), Anton et al. (2012)). This is also the opinion of Anonymous referee #1 and #2 who considered this paper to be ’a substantial contribution to the understanding of natural hazards and their consequences’. Hence our paper falls within the main scope of NHESS. [Comment] – “ ‘soil erosion is linked to several natural hazards... ’ This is important for an acceptance in this journal. What is the link? Who can soil erosion modelling help to understand NH”