See  the attachment for our response to reviewer RC1

RC3: 'Comment on figures in egusphere-2025-4957', Norman Donaldson, 03 Dec 2025

The response on the  comments and suggestions here can be found in the response to RC4, which includes the everything  from RC3.

RC3 General

I am still working on writing up comments on the text, but I have some comments 

on figures. Since changes to figures are more time consuming, I am going post 

those comments now. See attached PDF. I hope to get the full review up early 

next week (week of Dec 8). 

Response: see above RC4

RC3 Figure Comments

Figure 3: The colour bar does not correspond to the figure. The colour bar shows pure gray 

colours, but the figure is using colours with a magenta/purple shade. The figure is deceptive 

because starting at 0m implies the radar antenna is higher than all surrounding terrain. 

Google Earth says the ground height is about 800m at turbines TUR2 and TUR3, and the 

height at the radar is about 735m. That means the antenna would need to be lower than the 

ground at that location, unless the antenna is more than 65m above ground. (Maybe the 

radar is that tall? The radar site specifications are not given.) My version of the figure using a 

crude topography database is below. 

Response: see above RC4

Figure 4 Change “wea” in title? (“WTC”?) Is it easy to replace the WIGOS id with a name? 

FYI I could not find this ID in the OSCAR database, but I have little experience with WIGOS, 

so it might be somewhere else. 

Response: see above RC4

Figure 8: As with Figure 3, colour bar does not correspond to the figure itself. 

Response: see above RC4

Figure 10 In my opinion the upper limit on reflectivity colours should be higher. I was 

surprised that the turbines seemed to be spread uniformly across 3 degrees, until I realized 

that the observed values must be far above the colour limits; colours were saturated so no 

detail below 3 deg in azimuth. I suspect the reported reflectivities are much in excess of 

60 dBZ. 

Response: see above RC4

Figure 11 What is the meaning of white? I can guess that clutter has exceeded the ability 

to correct reflectivity, but please state meaning. The same comment for Figure 12. 

Response: see above RC4

Figure 14: What is “Wea” and “NoWea” on the figures? Maybe “WF” (Wind Farm) was 

intended, since discussion in the text indicates that the distributions labelled “Wea” are 

from the wind farm sector. (Elsewhere WEA is WTC, but I would prefer WF here.)

Response: see above RC4

See the point by point response in the attachment