I have read the revised version of the paper and Referee #2’s comments. I find myself totally in agreement with Referee #2. The paper does not improve physical understanding in any of the areas touched upon.
On the other hand, I am quite sympathetic to the author’s attempt at applying this method. It is in the mainstream of NPG papers and deserves to be published in some form. I suggest that the author revise the paper with an honest assessment of the inconclusive results and the limitations of the approach. That could be excellent guidance for others working in this area.

With Best Wishes, Bruce Tsurutani Editor

The author has not responded fully to my suggestions. I expect to see strong statements both in the abstract and in the conclusion section that the technique unfortunately did not result in clear physical understanding of the ionospheric phenomena and thus the application was not successful.

In the next version of the paper if this is not done satisfactorily, the paper will be rejected.

Bruce Tsurutani

The paper is now accepted for publication in NPG.