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We thank the referee for reviewing our manuscript and for providing detailed comments. The reviewer raised several major concerns regarding the techniques employed in our study, which we address in detail below. As can be seen from our response, we feel that these issues can be resolved by better clarifying our methodology in the revised version of our manuscript. Our responses are marked in red color font in the text below, in between the reviewer's comments. General comments: The authors conducted case studies to analyze the variations of >2 MeV electrons in terrestrial radiation belt, and their relation to interplanetary triggers C1 ANGEOD Interactive comment Printer-friendly version Discussion paperand geomagnetic activities. However, neither any contribution can be found to further the current understanding of relativistic electron dynamics, nor the methods the authors applied are appropriate and valid. Specific comments: 1. While the authors claimed that they extended the understanding of radiation belt dynamics, what has been shown in this manuscript is that they simply listed the previous findings of other researchers, without, throughout the manuscript, pointing out which aspects are still not clear and what they did to improve the understanding of these aspects. I think this is the main problem. This main flaw makes the current manuscript more an essay, rather than a research article.Response: The scope of the paper will be included in the revised manuscript:The population of relativistic electron fluxes in the Earth's radiation belt are highly variable which are supposed to be balanced by a complicated and delicate balance between acceleration, transport, and loss processes. It is one of the subjects in space science of intense interest and study. There have been vigorous studies and research about those killer electrons (named since its adverse effects to astronauts and satellites onboard), still, there is a lack of understanding about their relation and periodicities with so-called geomagnetic storms. This casework thus tried to comprehend its periodic nature and dependency with geomagnetic storms using cross correlation and wavelet analysis. This paper addresses the trend and association of relativistic electron fluxes with geomagnetic storms taking important solar interplanetary parameters. The discussion and conclusion of this casework is believed to serve as a reference for the times to come in the field of space science.In the revised manuscript, we will revise the introduction section and add two new events as below.