Dear Authors:

Thank you for posting your reply comments.
Both reviewers evaluated positively (good to excellent) the scientific quality of your study. However, one referee strongly recommended thorough revision to improve readability, especially clarity and correctness of the manuscript. As recommended by the reviewer #2, shortening the manuscript by at least 25% is a good direction for revision, although you should in some parts add explanation to remove vagueness. As you stated in the reply letter, some tables and figures can be removed, and redundant sentences can be deleted. I studied your reply comments and conclude that the manuscript is expected to be improved adequately. In terms of the data publication issue, again, your reply seems reasonable for me. I’m waiting to receive a manuscript revised as you stated in the letter.

Dear Authors:

Thank you for sending the revised manuscript with your replies. The referees requested you to improve readability of the manuscript, although they gave positive evaluation to the scientific quality of this work. I studied this revision and found that it became considerably clearer than the first submission. Most ambiguity was removed by adding explanation, while the manuscript became relatively concise. So, I conclude that the manuscript is acceptable for publication.