Author´s reply [to comments on ´On the concepts used in return stroke models applied in engineering practice´]

For original paper see ibid., vol.45, no.1, p.101-8, (2003). For comment see V.A. Rakov et al., ibid., p.567. The paper further discusses current generation in lightning return stroke modeling. Rakov et al. have commented on the author\´s division of the total charge density into its "deposited" and "transferred" components. Any division of the total charge in a given lightning channel element at a given time into deposited and transferred components is model dependent and one cannot define uniquely the deposited charge at a given time. Even though the physical description of the composition of the charge on a given channel element at a given time is different in the current propagation and current generation points of view, both descriptions agree on the total charge in a given channel element at a given time, the total charge deposited on the channel element as time goes to infinity and the total charge transferred across the channel element as time goes to infinity.