The paper is a fine work of mainly satellite based analysis for the Eastren Mediterranean area.

The authors have taken into account the reviewer's suggestions.
In addition, i suggest that they can clarify/discuss the following issues before the work is published.

In the first paragraph of page 4 there is a long list of publications dealing with Mediterranean and satellite use. This collection of papers is based simply on satellite use. I would suggest since you are not commenting on what anyone of these authors really did and since this is not an overview paper, to limit the publications on this section based on the importance of their results.

There are several papers comparing aeronet stations with MODIS AOD’s. Based on figure 3 and table 2 and the discussion included, I do not see any comments on the impact of the differences exhibited, to the final results of your study. Comments are limited to:
“The results discussed in this paragraph are comparable to the ones appearing in previous studies focusing on the Mediterranean region (see Papadimas et al., 2009; Koukouli et al., 2010). In general, it is shown here that the MODIS Terra Collection 051 data exhibit a better agreement with the ground-based observations from AERONET than MODIS Aqua data do.”

So in the conclusions it would be important to include some discussion on this issue. For example figure 3c (DB) statistics are quite random in my opinion. So the importance of the results based on these data have to be discussed.

Personally I do not like the function and function statistics of the articles vs years in figure 4. I think you can simply mention it or leave the line there for demonstrating what you want to say.

Figure 6. It was strange for me not to see any AOD hints in and around the area of Istanbul at all seasons. There are studies showing the importance of the aerosol flow from this area over various directions but in this study it is completely invisible e.g. compared to Ankara, Turkey area, or even Thessaloniki and Athens area.

Figure 7. FMF fraction use over land as the authors report is quite uncertain. Could you quantify the effect of its use on the land related percentages of this figure ?

Figure 11 dust cases/column. We expect a gradient of AOD based on the dust sources of Sahara and middle East. However e.g. figure 11j there are significant contributions in the order of 0.1 to 0.15 of AOD to specific isolated areas e.g. in Greece. Could it be due to uncertainties related with the way of characteriizng dust here ?