Thank-you for your revisions. I have some “technical corrections” and a few questions for you to consider before final publication in Ocean Science. Please also note that your final form will be copy-edited; I expect that there will be changes and you should check that your intended meaning is retained.

Page 1
Line 8. “. . in gulfs.”? (can omit “regions of the” and gulfs have to have a coastline, c.f. Referee 1 comment).
Line 10. Better “. . during a one-year period . .”
Lines 20-21. Better “. . result of swells from the southeast and south and the remainder are wind-seas from the east and southeast.” (as page 11 lines 26-27).

Page 2.
Lines 8-9. Referee 2 commented on this: do you mean that wind-seas dominate in coastal regions, bays and gulfs? You deleted this sentence and then replaced it with the same in your response.
Line 13. Omit “the”.
Line 17. Does “annually” add any meaning here?
Line 29. Better “. . one-year-long . .”
Lines 32-33. Better “. . studied at 8 N, 78.25E. The change in . .”

Page 3.
Lines 9-10. Better rearranged: “This study uses waves measured from 1 May 2015 to 30 April 2016 in the western GoM . . 12m. The wave data . .”
Line 12. Better “. . for a one-year period. .”
Line 28. “narrowness parameter (ν)” needs definition or a reference.

Page 4.
Lines 1-2. “. . spectrum with the same peak frequency. If the ratio . .”
Line 4. How is fc estimated? This is not immediately clear in Portilla et al. (2009).
Line 12. Better “The third-generation . .”
Lines 18-19. Better “. . source terms. The JONSWAP” There should be a reference for the “parameterization (BT1)”.
Line 23. Delete “at”.
Line 26. “propagate” not “approach”.

Page 5.
Equation (4). I think the formula should be Σ(Ai-)(Bi-) / √[ Σ(Ai-)2 Σ(Bi-)2 ]. {Sorry I have had to use <..> to denote mean values. No absolute values are needed. The (Ai-)2 and (Bi-)2 are summed separately}.
Line 18. “under-predicted”, “under-prediction”.
Line 25 (continuing to page 26 line 1). Better “. . is in comparatively good agreement with ERA-Interim Hm0: bias . .”

Page 6.
Lines 2. “has” not “is having”
Line 3. “coefficient” (no “s”).
Line 4. “. .period have ranges of . .”
Section 3.1 somewhere should refer to Table 3.

Page 7 line 22. Can omit “shows that the distribution”.

Page 8 line 14. Define “transitional”.

Page 9.
Lines 17-19. Better rearranged: “Young et al. (2011) indicate a weak increase . . Ocean, based on . . satellite altimeter measurements.”
Lines 20-21. Better “Nonlinearity in the surface elevations is reflected in sharpening of the wave crests and flattening . .” [This is a general statement; you have not specified this in your case so omit “The”, “the”, “the”.]
Line 22. Similarly omit “The” before “positive”.

Page 11.
Line 1. “. . For example, waves . .”
Line 28. Better “. . India. For a majority of the time, multi-peaked . .”
Line 31. “swell-dominated”.

Page 12.
Lines 1-2. Better rearranged: “Over an annual cycle, long-period waves . . are observed 31.6% of the time.”
Lines 3-4. Better “. . waves are a young sea mixed with swells. An increase . .”

Table 1. Please try to see that the final version for publication looks more compact and has better-separated columns. Single line spacing will help a lot. Possibly also centre the text in each column; at present it is left- and right-justified and this is not helping.

Figure 4 caption. “Correlation between model data and . .” or “Correlation of model data with . .”