Dear authors,

I am pleased to inform you that your manuscript can be published in ACP after considering the following technical corrections:

P1, L8-10: These two sentence are quite difficult to follow and I would suggest to rephrase these. Do you mean "In the model delD0 is expressed as......"? What do you mean with "dampening hope"? I guess the sentence is not complete and thus confusing.

P1, L15: This paragraph should be combined with the previous paragraph.

P1: Since you do not have any copyright statement this line is obsolete and can be deleted.

P3, 6-7: Space between number and unit is missing. This should be corrected throughout the manuscript.

P3, L20: Here you should use the abbreviation "B15" you introduced before.

P11, Fig 4 caption: "If delD profiles follow a Rayleigh distillation....." Not entirely clear. I understand that this is the figure for the case where the delD profiles follow a Rayleigh distillation. I would clearly state that and write here e.g.: " (a) For the case where the delD profiles follow the Rayleigh distillation". Same holds than for the figure caption of (b).

P13, Fig 5 caption: "\citetet" instead of "\citep" should be used here.

P13, L5: strato-cumulus -> stratocumulus (?)

P15, L2: table 1 -> Table 1

P15, L10: To avoid the double parentheses you should use in latex: \citep[e.g.][]{ref1,ref2} for the references.

P15, L7: Same here.

P17, L33: from higher in altitude -> from higher altitudes

P18, Fig 7 caption: For better readability I suggets the following changes a) -> (a) and in the text then instead of just a -> (a), Same holds for panel (b).

P19, Fig 8 legend: add a space between "season" and "location" so that it reads "(season, location)".

P19, Fig. 8: Why is the y-axes labelling at the right axes not done for all ticks?

P20, Table 2: ascending -> Ascending

P24, Fig 11: Same here as for Foig 7. Further, the writing of the z_orig is a bit confusing. I would not write the r_orig = 0.6 as subscript. I would suggest to write in parentheses z_orig (r_orig = 0.6).

P26, L14: increasingly higher in altitude -> increasingly higher altitudes

P29, L7: to -> too

P29, L25: space between parentheses and delD_f obsolete.

P29, L26: use write the text first and then give the citations wit \citep (e.g. on Islands such as ....\citep{ref1,ref2,ref3})

P29, L28: Finally, as fifth -> Finally, as a fifth

P30, L4: appendix -> Appendix

P30, L19: Benetti et al. (2015) -> B15

P30, L19: make explicit the -> make the explicit

P30, L28: hundreds -> hundred

P33, L3: visualize -> visualized. Further, I would rather write has been than can be since you have done it and shown in Fig. 4.

Fig C1 and D1: There are lost parentheses without content in the figure titles.

Best regards, Farahnaz Khosrawi