The authors have adequately addressed the referee comments. Before uploading the final files, the authors should consider the following technical comments/suggestions (these refer to the file that have changes in the text marked as red):

1) Page 7, lines 2-3 (the first paragraph in section 3.3): maybe better to write : "...sinks), provided that the source of condensable chemical species are large enough and other conditions..."

2) page 7, line 9: maybe "...while the curve representing NPF disappeared when the air..."

Page 8, line 28: "although" sound odd here, maybe "especially since the latter possibility..."

Page 8, lines 40-41: to make it more clear, "...growth phase (increase of the nucleation mode NMD) and shrinkage phase (decrease of the nucleation mode NMD) of the ..."

Page 9, line 8: "...tendendy, i.e. increasing N6-25 during the shrinkage phase, was observed."

Page 9, line 15 "...than during the growth phase."??

Page 9, line 18 ".., according to..." comma needed

Page 9, line 30 "...did not allow us to...

Page 9-10 "associated with"

Page 10, line 4: ", mainly organic compounds."

Page 10, line 6: "...increases with an increasing particle size.."

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