Dear Dr. Mazelle,

first of all, thank you for your patience and understanding regarding the long review process. Based the on the referee reports available and your responses in the interactive discussion, I consider that your manuscript can be an important contribution to the community investigating shocks in solar system plasma environments and is therefore suitable for publication in our journal. As you may realize, both reviewers agree that scientifically, the manuscript is already of high quality, and recommended only revisions for several presentation aspects of your work. Your responses in the interactive discussion are sufficient for me and indicate that the revised article version will be significantly improved in that respect. In that sense, please revise your article along the lines of the responses already provided. Please submit, along with your formal responses (which may be the same as in the interactive discussion), a marked up version of the manuscript with changes from the original, indicated.

As a final editorial comment, please obtain a permission for re-using Fig. 3 in our journal (which is from a paper published in JGR Horbury et al. 2002). You may obtain this from https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2001JA000273, going to "Tools-->Request Permission" and follow the instructions from there on.

I am looking forward to receiving your revised article.

Kind regards,

Elias Roussos