Dear authors,

thank you for your interesting manuscript. An important contribution of your article is the use of global sensitivity analysis. Although a highly useful tool, this method is not as well known and used as it probably should, and I am much in favor of demonstrating the usefulness of this approach for screening load simulations in wind energy science.

One reviewer questions the modifications of the method introduced by you for domain-specific analysis of fatigue and ultimate loads, and I agree that these modification warrant more study and justification (especially the normalization by the range for the fatigue sensitivity in Eq. 6). That said, use of the modified approach seems reasonable here with the (limited) reasoning given in the article, in light of the goal of an efficient screening procedure. One should be clear that global sensitivity analysis has some serious limitations - but it can still be a highly useful tool.

I thereby judge that the revised paper can be published in Wind Energy Science, and congratulate you on an interesting article.

Best regards,
M Muskulus

Dear Amy,

Your submission is now approved for publication in Wind Energy Science.
Please note that a lot of formalities like the use of italics and caps will be dealt with by the publisher Copernicus and fortunately not by the editor ("the paper will go through a formal review process with an editor")!!

So Copernicus will pick up the tread with regard to final editing and typesetting.

Thank you for choosing WES as the publication body of your manuscript.

Regard

Gerard J.W. van Bussel