ESSDD Interactive comment Printer-friendly version Discussion paper Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2019-71-AC1, 2019 © Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Open Access Earth System Science Data Discussions Interactive comment on “Global distribution of nearshore slopes with implications for coastal retreat” by Panagiotis Athanasiou et al. Panagiotis Athanasiou et al. panos.athanasiou@deltares.nl Received and published: 21 August 2019 We would like to thank both the reviewers for the careful and thorough reading of this manuscript and for the thoughtful comments and constructive suggestions they pro- vided. They undoubtedly helped to improve the quality of this manuscript. In this response we are addressing the comments and feedback from the reviewers. We have numbered the reviewers comments (R1.1, R1.2 etc. for Reviewer 1 and R2.1, R2.2 etc. for Reviewer 2) in order to facilitate referencing to each comment. The pages and line numbers in our responses refer to the manuscript with the changes. Anonymous Referee #1 (R1) The manuscript by Athanasiou et al. introduces a new global dataset of nearshore slopes with the aim to address an important gap of global- C1