Dear Dr. Wagner,

Thank you for your thorough response to the two thorough reviews of your excellent manuscript. Most of the modifications were technical.

I have a couple of things to request, so that the significance of the article can be more widely appreciated. Both in the abstract and conclusions, I would like to see a numerical contrast of the observational results to those more widely assumed. Also, because the asymmetry parameter is not as widely appreciated in its significance relative to other single scattering parameters, I would like to see some statement of the impact of this contrast on the scaled optical depth. It is not so much g that is relevant but rather (1 - g). It appears to me that the results you propose imply possible modeling errors for the shortwave reflection by thin cirrus of order 50%, which is an important point to make, again in the abstract and conclusions.

With these minor adjustments, I will accept the paper.

Best regards,

Tim Garrett