Dear Soo-Hyun Kim et al.,

as you can see from the reviewers report, there are a few minor points which I'd like to ask you to consider, see below, before publication of the manuscript.

best wishes,
Wiebke Frey

Anonymous Referee:
I think the paper is in quite good shape after the changes made in response to the initial round of comments. Now I have just a couple of recommendations, and a list of incidental language usage corrections.

1. In the response to Referee #1's major comment 1a, there is some information that I did not see in the revised paper. Specifically, the statement: "[P]ossible reasons [for] suspicious DEVG values [could] be power loss [at the] electrical contact[s] and a bug in the DEVG initialization logic, which is related to [an] intermittently added 1-g-bias, where g is the acceleration due to gravity (D. Body, personal communication)." This information would be useful to include in the paper.

2. p. 2, line 20: Rather than saying that the DEVG uncertainties are assumed to be negligible, it would be more informative to quote the actual figures from the AMDAR manual (3 to 4% typically, 10 to 12% in the extreme).

Language corrections

1. p. 1, line 20: "statistics by" --> "statistics obtained by"
2. p. 1, line 28: "routine, therefore PIREPs" --> "routine; therefore, PIREPs"
3. p. 2, line 6: "metrics are" --> "metrics were"
4. p. 3, line 2: "adopted the" --> "adopted a"; "and different" --> "and a different"
5. p. 3, line 3: "between two" --> "between the two"
6. p. 3, line 4: "metric detection" --> "detection metric"
7. p. 4, line 2: "NOAA include" --> "NOAA that include"
8. p. 4, line 13: "This reporting" --> "The reporting"
9. p. 4, line 15: "lower reporting time window" --> "long reporting time windows"
10. p. 4, line 16: "counts either" --> "counts on either"
11. p. 5, line 32: "to" --> "for"
12. p. 6, line 8: "reason of" --> "reason for"
13. p. 7, line 5: Delete "forecast"
14. p. 7, line 11: "the lognormal property of" --> "a lognormal property for"
15. p. 8, line 5: Delete "for"
16. p. 8, line 14: "bands of" --> "bands with"
17. p. 8, line 15: "for" --> "for the"
18. p. 8, line 22: "which developed the best-fit" --> "based on the best-fit"
19. p. 8, line 29: Delete "for"
20. p. 9, line 16: "with" --> "as"
21. p. 10, line 23: "the lognormal property of" --> "a lognormal property for"
22. p. 10, line 23: "proposed the" --> "proposed a"
23. p. 10, line 24: "on the" --> "on a"
24. p. 10, line 28: "The robust" --> "A robust"
25. p. 11, line 5: "of global" --> "of a global"