We thank the author for the comment and pointing out a considerable shortcoming in the analysis presented in the manuscript.

To investigate the issue whether insects are biased scatterers for the radar, we added a scatterplot (Fig. 9 in manuscript; see also the attachment for the figure) to Section 4.3 that contains only measurements where the X-band radar has Z_DR ≥ 5 and ρ_HV ≤ 0.9, as those measurements would be expected to be from insects. For this subset of the data, the coefficient of determination R² = 0.95 is slightly decreased and bias (ME = 0.078 ms ⁻¹) increased, but the RMSD = 1.13 ms ⁻¹ is decreased. Visually, the artefacts seen in Fig. 3 are not present in the new scatterplot. This leads us to conclude that for our location and data, insects are not an issue when comparing Doppler velocity measurements from lidar and radar. However, this is certainly not the case everywhere, so the issue should be investigated separately for each location.

We have added discussion summarizing the above in Section 4.3 and in the conclusions in Section 5. Additionally, we added discussion of dual-PRF unfolding errors as an error source in Section 4.1.

We thank the reviewer for catching the error in the measurement specifications. In Table 2, the number of pulses in the lidar measurements was updated to be 10 000. The accumulation time of the measurements is 1000 ms, with each PPI scan lasting approximately 2 minutes.

We also checked the values in Table 1 for the radar measurement specifications and found no errors there.

We thank the reviewer for the kind comments and apt summary of the manuscript.

Regarding Figures 5, 9 and 11, the histograms were plotted using hexagons (matplotlib hexbin-function) instead of rectangles (hist2d-function) to improve visual representation. The hexagons in Figures 9 and 11 are stretched in the horizontal due to the different bin sizes. The horizontal bin size in Figure 5 for horizontal visibility is 2500 meters, in Figure 9 for cloud base height 50 meters, and in Figure 11 for precipitation intensity 0.015 mmh ⁻¹. The bin sizes were selected by hand to achieve a reasonable balance between the resolution in the histogram and the number of bins, as using too many bins would have led to very low values (percentage of cases) in each bin, which again would have made the figures harder to interpret. Additionally, each figure was plotted to have approximately equal-sized x- and y-axes. As a result, in Figures 9 and 11 the hexagons are slightly stretched in horizontal, while in Figure 5 the hexagons appear symmetric.