We thank the reviewer for the positive feedback and are pleased that the manuscript is considered suitable for AMT. We have carefully addressed the technical comments in the revised version.

Reviewer: p.5 ln.117 “In general, as the Ångström exponent A increases, the extinction coefficient…” Should be reformulated.

Authors: This sentence is reformulated: Generally, an increase in the Ångström exponent value shifts the extinction coefficient and the lidar ratio to slightly larger values and the backscatter coefficient to lower values.

Reviewer: Fig.3. Extinction at 3 km height is low and drop of the lidar ratio at 3 km probably has no physical meaning, So, by my opinion, no reason to show it. Within aerosol layer at 4 km, backscattering and extinction coefficients have very different profiles. And looks like extinction is strongly smoothed. Thus, profile of lidar ratio, probably, makes sense only in the center of the layer. I would show only averaged value (near the center of the layer)  of the lidar ratio.

Authors: We thank the reviewer for the recommendation. Since we aim to highlight the profile variations and deviations among different Ångström Exponent values, we believe it is more informative to present the profiles rather than only mean values. However, we agree that the drop in the LR at 3 km has no physical meaning. We decided to cut the LR profiles from 2.4 km to 3.8 km and exclude them from the plot. Figure 3 has been revised accordingly. 

We thank the reviewer for the supportive evaluation and appreciate the positive comments on the clarity, usefulness, and relevance of our work.

We added the following paragraph: An Ångström Exponent (AE) of 0–0.5 is recommended for pure or polluted dust. AE values of 1.0 and 1.5 are more appropriate for non-dust aerosols, such as anthropogenic pollution. In the case of wildfire smoke, it is more complex. For very aged wildfire smoke, the extinction-related AE approaches 0.0, while the backscatter-related AE is 1.5, resulting in higher lidar ratios at 532 nm than at 355 nm, as observed for Canadian (Haarig et al., ACP, 2018), Australian (Ohneiser et al., ACP, 2020), and Siberian (Ohneiser et al., ACP, 2021) smoke. For black carbon-rich aerosols, such as those from residential wood combustion, the AE value can be set between 1.5 and 2.0.