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I very much enjoyed reading this article.  The manuscript is well written and well organized, and the data analysis has been done with care.  Frankly, I think the manuscript is perfectly publishable in its present form.  What comments I have, are frankly being rather picky.

I commend the authors for producing a well-written manuscript.  The analysis is solid, well-documented, and it characterizes cloud microphysical structure in a region of the planet, the Southern Ocean, where detailed observations are extremely rare.  I have only a few minor comments and believe this manuscript is publishable in present form.

Line 230: I was a bit curious about the justification for selecting the minimum Doppler velocity for Dmin rather than some measure of central tendency.  Although you refer the reader to Silber (2021), a sentence outlining the reasoning behind this choice in the current manuscript would help the reader.

Line 280: Is it possible that clouds that are part warm and part supercooled are frontal?  My comment is more of a curiosity than substantive.

Line 295: The maximum growth rate of ice is -14C, so I wasn't surprised that this difference exists.  It may be worth mentioning this temperature for those who are not familiar with mixed phase clouds.  

Line 304: It would be interesting to characterize the vertical mixing state to determine the degree of decoupling (if there is any decoupling).  There is a possibility that the cloud morphology you are describing is a hybrid: cumulus-coupled stratocumulus.

Line 515: Interesting finding.  I wonder if preciptation occurence is really the best way to guage model performance.  It is the vertical liquid/ice water flux that determines cloud water evolution.  In other words, a cloud can precipitate almost continuously, but if the liquid/ice water flux is small, it may have minimal impact on the cloud life cycle.  It's diffult to determine these fluxes from observations, as you note in the paper, but I wonder if there is really a difference in these fluxes between the cloud types despite the difference in precipitation occurence?