dehydration, and denitrification in Arctic cirrus”

• Main Authors: Interactive Comment On “supersaturation, B. Kärcher
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: Arctic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.646.1719; http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/5/S545/2005/acpd-5-S545-2005-print.pdf

I agree with Dr. Pfister that idealized simulations are valuable, because of their potential to study the interplay between and the relative importance of many physical cloud processes. Here follows a point-by-point reply to his constructive suggestions. 1. Describing the cloud observations I agree that this paper should stand on its own. I will therefore provide a brief overview of the meteorological situation and the initialization of ambient profiles in Section 3.1. 2. Comparing simulation results with the lidar observations Lin et al. (2005) provide a model-based analysis of the lidar observations detailed in Reichart et al. (2002). As I have stated on p.1841, lines 7+8, the foci of the Lin et