The article entitled: "Temperature profiling at the American WAKE experimeNt (AWAKEN): methodology and uncertainty quantification" presents an assessment study of the accuracy in determining the atmospheric temperature vertical profile using a ground based atmospheric sounding spectrometer. For this purpose, the authors have conducted a series of validation tests before and during the AWAKEN experiment. I think that the manuscript is very well written and structured. The figures are clear and descriptive. 

I have only a few minor comments on the manuscript.

1. I find the manuscript a bit too long. I understand that this partly to the thorough description of all validation tests which is necessary. I suggest that the authors could consider moving parts in the Appendix (for example Figure 13) and consider if the presentation of the gravity wave case is necessary for this paper, or not. In the same context, Figure 1 is just mentioned in line 105, but it is not really discussed in the article.
2. On the contrary, I think that it would be constructive to include a bit more information regarding the ASSIST instrument. 
3. Line 145. It is not clear how often are radiosondes measurements required for the optimum performance of the atmospheric sounding spectrometer data analysis. Can you please comment on this.
4. Lines 180 – 185, Table 2. Add a brief description in the label of the table about the mean statistics.
5. Line 192. Is it daily or hourly averaged?
6. Line 229, Figure 5. Add a description of the red line in the label of Figure 5.
7. Lines 250 – 251. What is the minimum measuring height of the ASSIST? Is it 3 m?
8. Lines 349 – 350. Isn’t it a redundancy to write that the “The Richardson number from TROPoe uses temperature and moistore content from TROpoe”?
9. Line 379. What was the type of the pulsed lidar of Shippert et al. 2023 and how is it used in this study?