Dear Dr. Sellitto,

I have received two reviews on the revised version of your manucript. While reviewer #1 is happy with the manuscript as is, reviewer #2 requests some additional (minor) changes. Please carefully review and address the additional points. Regarding the first point of reviewer #2 I also suggest adding a table with the relevant pieces of information.

Best wishes,

Christian von Savigny (Assoc. editor am AMT)

Dear authors,

thanks for the updated version of your manuscript. I just read the manuscript myself and found a few minor inconsistencies that I ask you to correct, before the paper can be accepted:

1. New sentence in line 193: „For the year 2034, the average SO2 emission flux is 0.035 Tg/year (0.00015 Tg/month or ~1.1 kg/s), at 15°N, and 0.005 Tg/year (0.00015 Tg/month or 0.16 kg/s), at 15°S.“

The numbers are not consistent, i.e. 0.035 Tg/year is not consistent with 0.00015 Tg/month. The numbers for 15S are not consistent either. The mass fluxes per year and seem to be consistent. Please correct.

2. Line 197: „Individual daily SO2 injections are of only a few hundreds of tonnes of SO2 (~150 tonnes at 15°S and ~1000 tonnes at 15°N)“
What period does the sentence refer to? This is not entirely clear and I suggest mentioning it explicitly.

3. Regarding your reply to SC3: I also wonder – like the reviewer – whether any SO2 was injected at 30N/S. Please clarify.

4. The list of references is not in a good shape overall. Several references lack the period at the end or are incomplete. Please provide the details of Funke et al. (which is not ordered alphabetically). Please check the list of references carefully.

Best wishes,

Christian von Savigny (Assoc. editor of AMT)

Dear authors,

thank you for addressing the remaining minor comments. I am happy to accept your manuscript for publication in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques - congratulations!

Sincerely,

Christian von Savigny (Assoc. editor of AMT)