Ron Hoeke Curt D. Storlazzi Justin Stopa Moritz Wandres Ryan J. Lowe Jerome Aucan 2019 Response to Melet, A., Meyssignac, B., Almar, R. & Le Cozannet, G. Under-estimated wave contribution to coastal sea-level rise. Nat. Clim. Change 8, 234–239 (2018). In a recent paper, Melet et al.1 claim that the contribution of wind-waves to coastal sea-level rise has been under-estimated. Although we agree with the overall premise that coastal wind-wave dynamics are important when assessing the full coastal impacts of sea-level rise, we argue that the paper is misleading. <clip> application/pdf 10.1038/s41558-018-0377-5 en Nature On the contribution of waves to total coastal water level changes in the context of sea level rise: a response to Melet, et al. (2018) article