We would like to thank the reviewer for his comments and recommendations. For the technical corrections:

• The "index" subscript in the equation has been corrected.
• The list in Lines 148 – 150 has been rewritten as per the reviewer suggestions.
• Changed the text according to the reviewer suggestions.
• Changed the text according to the reviewer suggestions.

We would like to thank the reviewer for his comments and recommendations. Specifically:

• The Figure 2 labeling error, along with the caption, has been corrected.
• A brief justification of the selected physical schemes has been provided, and the pertinent publications have been added. More specifically the following paragraph has been included after Table 2: The physical parameterizations schemes chosen are selected due to their previous performance in similar studies. For instance, the same configuration was used in Solomos et al., 2023 for the sensitivity simulations for the METAL-WRF development. Additionally, the same parameterizations were used in Spyrou et al., 2022 where a dust source map was created for the Saharan desert (excluding the use of a newer cumulus scheme in this work) and other similar works (i.e. Drakaki et al., 2022). For the microphysics, surface and radiative transfer schemes specifically, the choices made are also suggested by the WRF-ARW user setup guide (Skamarock et al., 2021) and have been successfully used in a number of other publications (Kampouri et al., 2021; Varlas et al., 2021 and others).