Dear Authors,

I am happy to accept your manuscript as article in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. I just pointed out a few minor technical corrections given below.

With kindest regards,

Daniel Knopf

Technical corrections (using annotated manuscript in response to reviewers):
Line 536: After "several", I believe a number is missing.
Line 537: You want to define "MVD".
A suggestion here (not a must): you may consider to give a table with nomenclature for applied parameters (given in text and equations) and important abbreviations. If you think this is not necessary, no need to do it. However, my feeling is that it may benefit the reader.
line 720 and line 725: Both lines display almost the same sentences. Not sure if this was intended as is. "...collide and nucleate....".
line 977: Did you mean "complete" instead of "compete". Comprehensive? Maybe you can omit it "...none of the above mechanisms have a quantitative theoretical description...". Or: "Although a complete quantitative theoretical description is missing for the above mechanisms, there is a ...".
line 985: "hand" instead of "hang".