Dear Dr. Peña and co-authors,

After reviewing the comments from your reviewers, your manuscript "The fence experiment - full-scale lidar-based shelter observations" may be suitable for publication after minor revisions. Your responses to the reviewers' comments indicate that you have revised the manuscript to take their concerns into consideration, specifically:
- appropriately referring to other literature, such as the Wilson (2004) study and Wang et al. (2001) (reference below)
- correcting typo in eqn. 2
- including both u and v components in Fig. 9
- Taylor's comments on page 14
- discussion of Fig. 1 (see Takle's comment)
- discussion of the v component as suggested by Takle

I look forward to reviewing the revised version of your manuscript.


Wang, H., E. S. Takle, and J. Shen, 2001: Shelterbelts and Windbreaks: Mathematical Modeling and Computer Simulation of Turbulent Flows. Ann. Rev. Fluid Mech., 33, 549-586.

Congratulations to the authors on a useful contribution to the literature. I have had the opportunity to closely review the second version of the manuscript, and have only a few minor technical/grammatical/literature inclusion corrections as noted below.



Minor:

1. Abstract line 2: Replace “sonic” with “sonic anemometer” (starting in the abstract, but also throughout)
2. abstract line 5 “the lower is the shelter” should be replaced with “the lower the effect of the shelter”
3. abstract line 6: “the lower the sheltering effect”
4. abstract line 8: insert “downwind” so sentence reads “up to 11 fence heights downwind”
5. page 2, line 1: no comma needed after “simulations”
6. page 2, line 3: insert “of” between “downwind” and “porous”
7. Literature review could cite other work, particularly one or more of the Wang and Takle works listed below, as the role of obliquity is nicely addressed in their simulations.
8. page 4, line 14, please provide a reference for the pressure measurements on blocks in shear flows.
9. throughout: the authors sometimes use past tense (“was measured” and “was used to simulate), frequently present tense (“system is not”, “mast is deployed”, “sonic anemometers are placed” “we redefine”), and sometimes an implied future tense (“where we want to measure”). Please consider carefully ensuring consistency throughout the manuscript to enhance readability
10. page 7 line 7: each of the windscanner lidars can only measure LOS speed. Please clarify in this sentence that the integration of the three measurements enable measurement of the wind direction (as discussed in 3.3.2), not that each individual lidar can define wind speed and wind direction.
11. page 8 line 12: do you mean interference of the fence with the probe volume? I doubt the probe volume affects the fence!
12. section 3.3.1 should include relevant WS facts such as maximum and minimum detectable velocities
13. page 10 lines 3 and 4: should explicitly state that this procedure assumes w is zero
14. page 14 footnote: “take” should be “takes”
15. page 15 line 6: “is not uniformly distributed” rather than “does not uniformly distribute”
16. page 15 line 22: “that causes”, not “what causes”
17. page 16: first partial paragraph: please proofread and rewrite where necessary to ensure that all “)” have mates. Are so many parentheticals necessary?
18. page 17 line 20: include reference to equation number for Perera’s estimates as it has been several pages since Perera has been referred to.
19. page 17 bottom/ page 18 top: Should refer to website where data is available for interested readers. perhaps page 18 line 12?
20. page 18 line 16: perhaps “obvious” rather than “well noticed”?






• Wang, H., and E. S. Takle, 1997: Momentum budget of boundary-layer flow perturbed by a shelterbelt. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 82, 417-435.
• Wang, H., and E. S. Takle, 1997: Model simulated influences of shelterbelt shape on wind sheltering efficiency. Journal of Applied Meteorology, 36.
• Wang, H., and E. S. Takle, 1996: On three-dimensionality of shelterbelt structure and its influences on shelter effects. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 79, 83-105.
• Wang, H., and E. S. Takle, 1996: On shelter efficiency of shelterbelts in oblique winds. Agric. and Forest Meteorology, 81, 95-117
• Wang, H., and E. S. Takle, 1995: A numerical simulation of boundary-layer flows near shelterbelts. Boundary Layer Meteor., 75, 141-173

Congratulations on a useful paper that nicely synthesizes unique observations with simulations!

Congratulations with a very nice paper!