Dear authors,

Thank you for submitting the revised manuscript. I have now received the evaluation of your revisions from one of the referees, who has two more comments that you may find in the report.

The first comment regarding the values of LWC, LWP, IWC and IWP in Table 3 and Table 4 needs to be addressed with clarification on "cloud mask", i.e., whether the values represent cloud average (defined by a threshold value) or domain average. Are the observations and model results comparable? It is a great suggestion of showing the histogram of these quantitates. My further request is to add units of LWP/IWP to the Figures 3 and 7 (or captions). Please also double check the observed LWC of 2.40 and LWP of 0.17 in Table 3, one of which looks like a mistake.

The second comment requires clarification on how the big difference in CDNC between the 1M (200 /cc) and 2M (<10 /cc) simulations affects the interpretation of model results in terms of the parameterization of auto-conversion/accretion processes for the 1M and 2M schemes.

I look forward to seeing your further revision.

Sincerely,
Hailong Wang, Editor