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Tornadoes are having impact on peoples live and are in a general interest.

The paper provides the general overview on the upcoming EarthCARE mission, which carries a unique suite of active and passive instruments for aerosol, cloud and radiation observations. It is thought to be the introductory paper for the AMT Special Issue "EarthCARE Level 2 algorithms and data products".

The study makes a substantial promise with direct benefits for the society at large.

This paper presents a detailed analysis about the methane emissions leakage event in the UK in 2023 by multiple approaches, which is highly available for the GHG emission, climate change, as well as the air quality communities, and highly concerned by the public and society.

From the handling editor : I think this paper is of particular interest to the geoscience community (following peer review) though likely too arcane for broader public/media. There's been a lot of discussion of the potential for preferentially oriented dust particles and this has impacts for remote sensing and modeling. So this seems to be an important step towards real characterisation of them. I agree with the authors' provided comment here so reproduce it below: Atmospheric dust particles with irregular shapes may present a preferential orientation in the Earth's atmosphere. This alignment can be detected from the resulting dichroic extinction of the transmitted sunlight through the elevated dust layers. Since mineral dust is one of the most abundant atmospheric aerosols and plays a significant role to the radiative forcing of the global climate, the somewhat elusive observation of particle orientation will be a game changer to existing remote sensing measurement techniques and the implementation of particle dynamics in desert dust transport models. With our research, we utilize a specifically designed direct sun Solar Polarimeter (SolPol), installed and operated on a remote observatory in Greece, and report on unique observations of enhanced linear polarization during dust events. We aim to interpret our measurements as the first observations of atmospheric dust particle orientation by measuring direct sunlight.

Following the handling editor recommendation, the manuscript presents innovative analysis of a ground-based imaging experiment using a shortwave infrared spectral camera to quantify carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from a coal-fired power plant. The innovation of the manuscript is to use low spectral resolution (7nm) imaging spectroscopy to measure CO2 plume structure and estimate emission amounts from chimneys by the ground-based observation. The methodology has potential important applications for fine-scale estimates of CO2 and other GHG emissions

I agree with the reviewer's assessment