Interactive comment on “Separation of Convective and Stratiform Precipitation Using Polarimetric Radar Data with A Support Vector Machine

This work proposes a new method, based on Support Vector Machine (SVM), to discriminate between convective and stratiform precipitation events. The algorithm receives radar data as input, namely the horizontal reflectivity, the differential reflectivity and the separation index. The results, presented in Section 3, highlight that the performance of the novel method are comparable with the multi-radar-multi-sensor (MRMS) precipitation classification approach, which was used as ground-truth. As a general comment, the manuscript is well structured and is adequate for the audience of AMT journal. However, before considering this work for publication, the authors must address some issues that are listed below: