Dear Dr, Lo Re and co-authors,

Thank you for the revision of your manuscript. It is now accepted for publication in Ocean Science, provided the final few technical comments are accounted for. These appear below:

P1, L5 Change to: In this study, a new approach is proposed to estimate …
P1, L8 nearby (instead of: near)?
P1,L24 accounts for (instead of: retains)?
P3, L27 Change to: This mathematical process has been validated in field measurements …

P5, L25 cm s-1 (format)
P5, L26 placed (instead of: emplaced)?

Caption of Fig. 1 c) Wave rose at the … buoy for the period 1 July 1989 to 5 June 2012. (note different format of dates)

Caption of Fig. 2 … farther from the shoreline.

P7, L2 continuously (not: in continuous)
P7, L6 according
P7, L9 Rayleigh (typo)
P7, L9 as follows (not: in the following)

Caption Fig. 3 transect n°45 (different format for number?)

P8, L7 ground

Table 5 In the table only S is mentioned, bot Std

Caption Fig. 4 “The numerical domain Monteforte et al. (2015).” The sentence is not complete.

P14, L1
I suggest to have a section name: Discussion
Then as a sub-section: Comparison of shoreline rate of change

P14 Please use format year-1 or yr-1

References
Several references have a pp. in front of the pages. Please delete those.

Anfuso et al 2016: Needs beginning and end page.
Stancheva et al.: Citation is not complete

With best wishes
Mario Hoppema