Response to comments made by Referee #1

Abstract

The study "A novel injection technique: using a field-based quantum cascade laser for the analysis of gas samples derived from static chambers" by Wecking et al. describes an experiment in which samples of N2O measured using the static chamber method are then analysed on a QCL and GC instrument for comparison. The study is well written and presented, but there are some over simplifications that should be addressed, in how the complexity of the system is described and the way the data is handled in the study. I advise quite a significant rewrite focussing on the actual focus of the study, which is how the instruments compare.