Manuscript amtd-8-9241-2015 “Multi-sensor analysis of convective activity in Central Italy during the HyMeX SOP 1.1” By N. Roberto et al. Reply to Reviewer #2 comments

1 Comment: In the paper the terms strokes and lightning are somewhat confused. The authors consider all analysis performed in the paper using the strokes of the LINET network. At the same time they refer and compare their results with works using lightning. Some grouping of the strokes must be performed to compare the results of this paper with findings in other works (see for example Yair et al. 2014). Reply We agree with your observation and we are sorry for the confusion arisen by the use of two terms “strokes” and “lightning” along the manuscript. However, in this work we had chosen to use “strokes” and not to group them into “flashes”. We think that it is better to show direct measurements, such as strokes, instead of grouping them into flashes. Furthermore, it is known that no absolute criteria exist to convert strokes into flashes (Yair et al., 2014). In fact, conversion depends on the “flash” definition, i.e., how to group strokes registered in a certain time interval and spatial range. Yair et al (2014) showed different methodologies of conversion that could be applied to group strokes. Formenton et al., 2013 in the comparison with their lightning model chose to use LINET strokes without grouping them into flashes, pointing out that there is no absolute criterion to convert strokes into flashes (see Answer to Comment 2). Action The incorrect use of “lightning” words will be corrected in the revised manuscript.