Dear Dr. De Leo:
On the basis of the reviewers’ evaluations and your replies in the interactive discussion, your manuscript will be reconsidered after a major revision (further review by editor and referee 1). The final publication of your manuscript in NHESS is conditional upon your answers to reviewer 1 and the changes in the revised version of your manuscript.

You are requested to submit a revised version of your manuscript and your pointwise replies to the comments of reviewer 1. You are obviously free to use the text that you have already published in the online discussion. Please, submit together with the revised version also a copy of your manuscript, where all your changes are annotated.
Looking forward to receiving your revised manuscript
Best regards
Piero Lionello

Dear Author:
the reviewer acknowledges that you have satisfactorily addressed most of her/his comments. However, the reviewer still has have two major remarks and two minor observations.

Please, answer to the two major remarks (and eventually modify the text acccordingly) and change the text according to the minor suggestions of the reviewer

Best regards,
Piero Lionello

Dear Authors:
In order to accept your paper for publication in NHESSD, I am asking you to add in the “Discussion” section 4 a short paragraph, where comment [2] of the reviewer is addressed. The paragraph should:
- explain that you are aware that generally waves should be propagated backward to obtain equivalent deep water wave characteristics to feed the runup model, in order to obtain coherent values to be consistently compared with computations where deep water values were directly used.
- describe why you think this is not needed in your case

Please mark the added paragraph, so that I will be able to identify it easily in the new text.
Looking forward to receive you revised version.
Best regards,
Piero Lionello

Dear authors,
thanks for the revised version of your manuscript that I am happy to accept for publication in NHESS. I thank you for having considered NHESS for the publications of your research.
Best regards,
Piero Lionello