Dear Dr. Lohou,

I have worked through you and your coauthors’ responses to the reviewers’ suggestions and comments and have found these to be satisfactory. I greatly appreciate the strong efforts made by the authors to address all of the concerns raised by the reviewers. There are several, primarily minor issues that still need to be addressed:

(1) Reviewer 3 asks the following related to Figure 8 and the associated text: “Please mention some previous studies that have shown any relationship between the “integrated flux” and the “LLC breakup time”. I assume that you did not include any references as you decided to use the averaged flux rather than the integrated flux. However, even when using the averaged flux I think that it would be useful to mention previous studies demonstrating this relationship.
(2) “Latter stratus breakup implies lower net radiation at surface (Fig. 8)” needs to be replaced with “Later stratus breakup …. at the surface (Fig. 8)” (not both “Later” and “the surface”).
(3) There are still a number of grammatical errors throughout the manuscript. Please will you work through the manuscript and try to eliminate as many of these as possible.

I do not anticipate that it will take you very long to address these concerns and I look forward to sending your manuscript once these issues have been satisfactorily addressed.

Kind regards,
Sue
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Susan C. van den Heever
Professor
Department of Atmospheric Science
Colorado State University
(970) 491-8501
https://vandenheever.atmos.colostate.edu/
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Dear Dr. Lohou,

I have one minor suggestion before I accept your paper for publication. This concerns the last sentence that you added:

"However, aircraft measurements of aerosols and clouds over southern West Africa during the 2016 summer monsoon show pollution and polluted clouds across the whole region (Taylor et al., (2019), Haslett et al. (2019)). The aerosol effect on LLSC diurnal cycle could not be investigated with ground-based
measurements performed during DACCIWA campaign.”

I am a little confused by this statement. Should it not read in the following way:

"Aircraft measurements of aerosols and clouds over southern West Africa during the 2016 summer monsoon show pollution and polluted clouds across the whole region (Taylor et al., (2019), Haslett et al. (2019)). However, the aerosol effect on LLSC diurnal cycle could not be investigated with ground-based
measurements performed during DACCIWA campaign.”

If this is the correct statement, please would you replace it. If this is not correct, please can you explain to me why this is the case.

Once I receive this correction it is my intention to send the manuscript for publication.

Kind regards,
Sue

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Professor Susan C. van den Heever
Department of Atmospheric Science
Colorado State University
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Dear Dr Lohou,

I have accepted your manuscript for publication. Congratulations to you and your co-authors!

Kind regards,
Sue van den Heever