Interactive comment on “Version 4 CALIPSO IIR ice and liquid water cloud microphysical properties, Part I: the retrieval algorithms” by Anne Garnier et al

This paper is suitable for publication but could use some improvements on general readability. For me, the issue is that the manuscript is full of terms for both measured and simulated radiances and brightness temperatures, emissivities, beta indices for the microphysical retrievals, and also a large number of acronyms and abbreviations. This became quite difficult to track since many these parameters have multiple subscripts -