Thanks for your revised version, which now has been seen by the two original referees again. One referee is satisfied with your changes, but the second referee (while agreeing that you have made substantial progress) still has important issues with your manuscript. Therefore I would ask you to revise the paper again taking the comments by the referee into account.

A few comments also from my side: The major remaining point seems to be the message conveyed by Figure 6 and the supporting evidence from the MLS observations (which have a limited spatial resolution). For example, in Fig. 6 you show 5 downward arrays but is this structure really reflected in Figs. 3 and 5?

Further, you have added more observations and you have nicely provided background information in tables. However, the central figures 3 and 4 seem unchanged. Is this true? Or do you have to update the figures after the inclusion of the new data?

Finally, there are a lot of technical/typesetting issues to be resolved in the revised version, as listed in the review. I have also noted that there is a typo on page 13, "Wie" should be "Wei" and the quantity "F" should be in italics in the text. Please also abbreviate the journal in reference Wei (1987).

In the revised version please make sure that the changes made are clearly noticeable (see also review).

As you see the referee has two more points where he/she thinks that clarification is required. I am sorry for the long process, but I would ask you to reply to these comments.

Thank you very much for the changes to the manuscript and the clarifications. I accept the manuscript for ACP (see some minor technical corrections below). Congratulations.

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l 468: change to: ... is a composite picture...

468/469: replace this sentence by: "Because each individual typhoon is different, this composite picture will differ somewhat from the typical structure shown in Fig. 7.