Interactive comment on “Improved rain-rate and drop-size retrievals from airborne and spaceborne Doppler radar” by Shannon L. Mason et al
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A common thread across the reviews was a request for more justification of the retrieval of a height-invariant Nw, and for evaluation of the retrievals through the vertical profile. In response we have added Figs. 5, 9 & 12 evaluating the averaged vertical profile of retrieved and forward-modelled variables in key precipitation regimes: moderate stratiform rain (case 1), light stratiform rain with strong evaporation (case 2), and moderate warm rain (case 3).
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