Interactive comment on “Exploration of the influence of environmental conditions on secondary organic aerosol formation and organic species properties using explicit simulations: development of the VBS-GECKO parameterization” by Victor Lannuque et al

The paper focuses on the development of the VBS-GECKO only. However, some observation/simulation comparisons for a few plume conditions were already performed in the past using the GECKO-A modeling tool (e.g. Lee-Taylor et al., 2011, 2015; Hodzic et al., 2013). Furthermore, the VBS-GECKO has been implemented in the chemistrytransport model CHIMERE and results compared with both in-situ measurements and other model outputs. Results show that the use of the VBS-GECKO parameterization slightly improves the performances of the model on OA concentrations compared to the current parameterization in CHIMERE. Detailed results will be included in a companion paper, to be submitted in ACPD (Lannuque et al., 2018).