I thank the authors for following most of my recommendations in organizing their results in a clearer way. The role of the different processes in increasing or decreasing the significant wave height (SWH) or water level (WL) at shore is really easier to understand.
I still have some minor comments about a certain lack of precision in the manuscript, that will be detailed below. As a general comment, I would like to have the quality of the English language to be improved throughout the manuscript and not only in the parts I mention below (besides, I am not a native myself). Some sentences are still incomplete or very difficult to understand. Other general comments will be to systematically refer to the models used (by the windguru.cz website technical staff) rather that to the website itself (which, in terms of specificity, does not mean anything), and to be extremely careful not to confuse the results of the present study with more general results.
p.1, l. 29: will be required to build the reef by 2100 -> will be required to build a healthy reef?
p.1, l. 31: the sentence staring by ”The use of coral reef growth..” is the result of a previous study rather that a conclusion of the present study. This should be clear, as no cost-effectiveness is assessed in the present study, and the further considerations about the benefits of corral reef are impacted by it.
p. 3, l. 3: the sentence starting by “Sheppard et al... “ is not clear, please rewrite.
p. 3, l. 8: “However, few studies...”: is it one of the topics of the present study?
p. 3, l. 10: “But, the target corals..are poorly understood” please rephrase.
Part 2.2: as rev; 3 mentioned, the choice of Typhoon Bopha rather than Typhoon Haiyan seems arbitrary to me. I understand the argument about the direction of the center of the typhoon with respect to the island, but I am a little surprised by the difference in SWH at Palau. Please check the figures you provided in the text/ in table 1, as they are different (min of SLP).
p. 4, l. 10 and 21: please make consistent the format for the dates.
p. 4, l. 14 (and many other instances below): again, windguru.cz is only the producer, please cite as well the model used for wind field/wave parameters production (GFS + resolution...).
p. 5, l. 21: “we used the data...” you cannot speak of data when it is a model outputs, please rephrase.
p. 5, l. 33: is the SWPo produced by GFS or rather by the (windguru) wave model WW3?
p. 6, l. 15: “obstacle data”? Please rephrase.
p. 6, l. 28: “the parameter of ...” please rephrase.
p. 6, l. 29 and below: as double figures... -> to two decimal places
p. 7, l. 19-20: “the arborescent Acropora facies is characterized by arborescent Acropora”, please rephrase.
p. 7, l. 22: “these corals are interpreted” please rephrase (believed? supposed?)
p. 7, l. 25: is given by following Eq(1) -> is given by
Part 3.1: how are derived the error bars of Fig.2 ? especially those of the measured values? Are they 95% / 99% confidence representative?
p. 8, l. 21: for a past ca. 70 years -> for the past 70 years?
Part 3.2: the table 3 presenting all the results of your experiments should be introduced in a general manner here.
p.11, l. 17: “Our results of WLs...” please rephrase.
p. 11, l. 12: “Our simulation data -> our simulation outputs (or results)”
Part 4.1: one of the conclusions of this part is that the coral damage has no impact on the future WL during TC, contrary to what is obtained for SWH. This should be stated clearly here (though discussed in part 4.2.
p. 12, l. 11: the conclusion of the previous sentence is that the site in 2100 will be very sensitive to a very small increase of SWH or WL, please rephrase accordingly.
p. 12, l. 14: “a 0.33 m of water level rise” -> “ a 0.33m sea level rise”
p. 12, l.15: “reveals widespread..”-> “causes widespread”?
p. 12, l. 29: “our results showed that only in 6”
p. 13, l. 1-2: “reef flats have established relationships” please rephrase.
p. 13, l.4: “demonstrated” -> “obtained”?
p. 13, l.6: “is not remarkable phenomenon”. Do you mean it is common or huge?
p. 13, l.12: “is a short of calculation time”, please rephrase.
p. 13, l. 22: “is predicted to be”
p. 14, l. 26 and below: “the importance of... future,” -> “that maintaining reef growth in the future is effective in reducing”
p. 14, l.33: “varies between each building”
Part 4.4: I agree with the first sentence which is one of the conclusions of this study, but not with the rest of the paragraph: demonstrating that something is useful or efficient does not mean that it is necessary and that additional studies or monitoring should be pursued.
p. 15, l. 25: “may respond to future SLR” -> “may help to mitigate the effects of..”
p. 15, l. 31: “However, ..” please rephrase. |