Dear Eckart Marsch,

meanwhile we have received the comments by both reviewers. I am pleased to inform you that after a minor revision, taking into consideration comments by both reviewer, the paper can be accepted for publication.

With my best wishes,
Margit Haberreiter
Topical Editor Annales Geophysicae

Dear Eckart Marsch,

I am delighted to let you know that your manuscript is accepted for publication.

For the final version of the manuscript may I kindly ask you to take into account the following technical/editorial points:

Page 2: second last line: deHoffman-Teller frame -> de Hoffmann-Teller frame (please check spelling)

Figures: could you please provide the figures with higher resolution, 400 dpi or above, in particular Figs. 1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, but please also check if the other figure panels are at print resolution.

In Fig. 7 the x-axis title of the top panels seems cut, or is it the same as for the bottom panels.

In Fig. 11, the panel title at the bottom of the panels (A=...) seems somewhat large. Possibly, the specific values of "A" could be included in the figure caption and/or in the body text of the manuscript.

The bounding box of Figs. 12 and 13 seem not correct, as there is quite some empty space below the panels. Could you please check this. Ideally, the resolution should also be slightly increased to print resolution (400 or 600 dpi).

Figure captions: Unless the figures are original for this paper and the work is carried out for the actual paper, the references from where the respective panels are adopted should be given in respective figure caption (for a few they are given in the text, but to help the reader it would be good to also have the references in the figure caption (mainly Figs. 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14).

Thank you very much.

Margit Haberreiter
Topical Editor Annales Geophysicae