Interactive comment on “A single parameter representation of hygroscopic growth and cloud condensation nucleus activity – Part 2: Including solubility” by M. D. Petters and S. M. Kreidenweis
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We thank Ari Laaksonen and the two anonymous reviewers of this manuscript for their comments. In the following we provide individual replies to each review. Reviewer 1 This manuscript provides an extension of the kappa formalism introduced by the same authors in ACP in 2007 (PK07) to account for compounds with limited solubility. An algorithm to calculate critical supersaturations is provided. The extension of the kappa formalism is relevant to the scientific community and the first part of the manuscript is clearly written and presents comprehensible equations for
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A single parameter representation of hygroscopic growth and cloud condensation nucleus activity – Part 2: Including solubility
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