The Impact of Air Well Geometry in a Malaysian Single Storey Terraced House

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 It will be good if you could add a section in your recommendations or somewhere else to recommend the inclusion of solar chimneys in new homes where appropriate. It will be also good if you could suggest some design guidelines for architects, planners and other stake holders on optimum configuration of the chimney in relation to the house characterises for example, its volume, geometry, etc.

Thanks for the comment. The recommendation has been added at the conclusion (configurations of the solar chimney from modified solar chimney)

-        The effective extended air well length of 2.0m is recommended for 3.5m chimney height with 1.0m width gap.

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The paper is rather too long.  It will be read better if you can edit it to make it more concise. 

Thanks for the comment. The length and graphs are part of the explanation and justification of the results. However, I have tried to concise it and specified it with further explanation. 

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Some of the figures do not relate to their descriptions in the text, e.g Figure 4 in line 393, it seems it should be Figure 8.    Or in line 436 figure 6 should be Figure 10?  Please go through your manuscript to make sure the figures are rightly numbered.

Thanks for the comment, it has been corrected accordingly

Figure 4 -> Figure 8 (line393)

Figure 6 -> Figure 10 (line436)

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You should also try to improve some of the graphs to make them easier to follow.   For example, Figure 17 is not easy to follow as shaded bars are very similar.  It might be better if you instead use colours.  The hours in the X axis may also have only hour digits to simplify it.

Both graphs have been stretched in horizontal (landscape format) for clearer view.

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air temperatures, relative humidity, solar radiation and air velocity were measured (fig. 4-7). It would be good to include in table 2 the accuracy of performed measurements;

The Table 2 has been updated with accuracy of each parameter.

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in the case of glazing besides the U and k values it would be good to see some other properties, (solar factor, shadings) Information source in the case of table 5 (these data were gathered by authors?)

The data was collected from the site material label. The additional two column has been added for the glazing of the case study house – solar heat gain coefficient and visible light transmission value

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too many information is presented in Fig. 22 technical terms should be revised throughout the text (sentences like "The atmosphere in the site area is tropical rainforest climate ..." should be revised). 

Thanks for the comment. The length and graphs are part of the explanation and justification of the results. However, I have tried to concise it and specified it with further explanation. 

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I think you write a well research, just too many graphics, maybe you can remove some of it.

Thanks reviewer for the comment and advise. However the graphs presented are relevant and

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Minor remarks: figure 17 and figure 22 are not readable, please change or remove.

Both graphs have been stretched in horizontal (landscape format) for clearer view.