Dear authors,

your paper is almost ready for publication. But a few changes are still necessary.

1) In the spirit of one of the comments by reviewer #1 I would like to see the term "uncertainty quantification" replaced by "uncertainty assessment" wherever it appears.

2) Figure 1 has been changed quite substantially. Now it is not really clear why the upper part of the new version is faded out. Is this the part that will be treated in the follow-on paper? Please clarify (in the figure caption).

3) Figure 2, caption: change b_2-4 into b_1-4 (first line).

4) 1st par. of section 3: "radiative scattering transfer" is a bad expression. I think "radiative transfer" suffices, since this expression includes scattering. If you deem the process of scattering should be emphasized here, then change to something like "radiative transfer, in particular scattering". The expression occurs twice and should be changed.

5) 1st par of 3.1: "cloud particles backscatter THIS TYPE OF RADIATION the most". I don't know what this type of radiation is. Please reformulate.

6) Table 1, green column: I don't understand what "see questionable row" means, in particular since the row labelled "questionable" is empty in the green column.

7) Lines 254-256 is almost exactly repeated in 276-278; the word "is" is missing in 255. Please correct.

8) Eq. 29: Check the units. lhs has m/s, but rhs has (m/2)^2.

9) line 880: "going forward" can be deleted.

10) line 928: What is CFAD (perhaps I missed the definition?).