Dear Dr. Narita,

thank you for submitting your article to ANGEO Communicates and for your efforts to respond to the referee in the interactive discussion session. I find your responses and the revisions you plan to do satisfactory, so please revise your manuscript along those responses' lines. After you submit your revision, I will send it to the referee for a second round of review, as he/she had several important remarks.

The only recommendation from my side is to investigate whether there are more recent global simulations of Venus-solar wind interaction, that may include another estimation for the diffusion time of the magnetic field, in addition to what Martinecz et al. (2009) provides. From a short bibliographic search, I came up e.g. with the study by Dimmock et al. (Dimmock, A. P., Alho, M., Kallio, E., Pope, S. A., Zhang, T. L., Kilpua, E., et al. (2018). The response of the Venusian plasma environment to the passage of an ICME: Hybrid simulation results and Venus Express observations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 123, 3580–3601. https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JA024852) which may be of relevance, although I have not explicitly checked whether that paper contains any relevant information about magnetic field diffusion.

Kind regards,

Elias Roussos

Dear Dr. Narita,

I have now received the referee report for your paper's revision. The reviewer found that the manuscript is considerably improved, however, there are several minor and moderate revisions (mostly clarifications) that should be considered before proceeding with an acceptance of your article for publication. I expect that no further report by the referee would be required, unless something remains unclear to me after the I review the changes in your second revision, in which case I may consult him/her.

Kind regards,

Elias Roussos