Optical properties of long-range transported Saharan dust over Barbados as measured by dual-wavelength depolarization Raman lidar measurements

Groß, S.; Freudenthaler, V.; Schepanski, K.; Toledano, C.; Schäfler, A.; Ansmann, A.; Weinzierl, B.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-11067-2015

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06 Oct 2015

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Optical properties of long-range transported Saharan dust over Barbados as measured by dual-wavelength depolarization Raman lidar measurements

S. Groß, V. Freudenthaler, K. Schepanski, C. Toledano, A. Schäfler, A. Ansmann, and B. Weinzierl

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RC C5557: 'review', Anonymous Referee #1, 03 Aug 2015
- AC C6868: 'Answers to Referee #1', Silke Gross, 15 Sep 2015
RC C6391: 'Review-minor changes', Anonymous Referee #2, 31 Aug 2015
- AC C6869: 'Answers to Referee #2', Silke Gross, 15 Sep 2015
SC C6673: 'Comments on S. Gross et al. manuscript ACP-2015-447', Patrick RAIROUX, 08 Sep 2015
- AC C6871: 'Answer to Short Comment', Silke Gross, 15 Sep 2015
SC C6675: 'Comments on S. Groβ et al., “Characterization of long-range transported Saharan dust at the Caribbean by dual-wavelength depolarization Raman lidar measurements”.', Alain Miffre, 08 Sep 2015
- AC C6872: 'Answer to Short Comment', Silke Gross, 15 Sep 2015

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AR by Silke Gross on behalf of the Authors (15 Sep 2015) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (22 Sep 2015) by Cyrille Flamant

AR by Silke Gross on behalf of the Authors (22 Sep 2015)

Short summary

In June and July 2013 dual-wavelength lidar measurements were performed in Barbados to study long-range transported Saharan dust across the Atlantic Ocean and investigate transport-induced changes. The focus of our measurements is the intensive optical properties, the lidar ratio and the particle linear depolarization ratio. While the lidar ratio shows no differences compared to the values of fresh Saharan dust, the particle linear depolarization ratio shows slight differences.