Ozone and aerosol tropospheric concentrations variability analyzed using the ADRIMED measurements and the WRF and CHIMERE models

Menut, L.; Mailler, S.; Siour, G.; Bessagnet, B.; Turquety, S.; Rea, G.; Briant, R.; Mallet, M.; Sciare, J.; Formenti, P.; Meleux, F.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-6159-2015

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Ozone and aerosol tropospheric concentrations variability analyzed using the ADRIMED measurements and the WRF and CHIMERE models

L. Menut, S. Mailler, G. Siour, B. Bessagnet, S. Turquety, G. Rea, R. Briant, M. Mallet, J. Sciare, P. Formenti, and F. Meleux

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RC C1222: 'Referee review', Anonymous Referee #1, 31 Mar 2015
RC C1300: 'Review of the paper «Ozone and aerosols tropospheric concentrations variability analyzed using the ADRIMED measurements and the WRF-CHIMERE models» by L.Menut et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 03 Apr 2015
AC C1567: 'Authors response', Laurent Menut, 14 Apr 2015

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AR by Laurent Menut on behalf of the Authors (14 Apr 2015) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (15 Apr 2015) by Oleg Dubovik

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (16 Apr 2015)

RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (12 May 2015)

Suggestions for revision or reasons for rejection

This manuscript presents an analysis of the ozone and aerosol variability over the Mediterranean during summer 2013. The authors have used both modeling tools and observations of a field campaign to carry out this detailed regional analysis. This work could be published in ACP after the following minor corrections:

- It is clearly stated in the abstract and in the conclusion that summer 2013 was not "a highly polluted period compared to typical levels for summer in this area". However, this affirmation is not very well justified in the paper itself, as there is no comparison to climatological averages for ozone or AOD over the Mediterranean basin. The authors should add this kind of information in the paper.

- Section 2: I think that the introduction paragraph of this section (lines 115-130) should be shorter, as all these details are given in the following paragraphs.

- Section 4.1: the authors are very optimistic about the performance of the model in terms of temperature and precipitation. They should justify it by giving explicit values as they have done in Section 4.2, or adding maps of differences between observations and WRF.

- Section 5.2 and Figures 10-11: The idea developed between line 465 and 478 seems to be a good explanation but I find that it should be better explained. Indeed, the authors should choose a day when for example the ozone concentration is overestimated in Ajaccio and underestimated in Bastia, and show this day in Figure 11 with the same units as in Figure 10. This would be much easier for the reader to understand the problem.

- Section 6.1: Another region where AOD in CHIMERE differs from AOD in MODIS is the east of Sahara (Egypt and northern Sudan). This should be mentioned in the text, and explained (perhaps due to missing emissions as in the eastern side of the Caspian Sea ?).

Technical corrections:
- Line 26: aerosolS
- Lines 83/84: Brackets should concern only the year.
- Line 90: there are uncertainties
- Line 100: the models' performance
- Line 103: additional information
- Figure 5: I cannot see the vectors mentioned in the caption.
- Line 325: "and" should be removed.
- Line 358: temperature
- Figure 8: The vertical scale for temperature could be changed in order to better see the variations in temperature.
- Line 435: Table 6 is based on hourly data.
- Line 484: A reference should be added.
- Figure 12 (caption): represents
- Line 726: sulphate
- Line 858: from 1st June to 15th July (same correction to do line 873)

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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (13 May 2015) by Oleg Dubovik

AR by Laurent Menut on behalf of the Authors (01 Jun 2015) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

The ozone and aerosol concentration variability is studied over the Euro-Mediterranean area during the months of June and July 2013 and in the framework of the ADRIMED project. A first analysis is performed using meteorological variables, ozone and aerosol concentrations using routine network station, satellite and specific ADRIMED project airborne measurements. This analysis is complemented by modeling using the WRF and CHIMERE regional models.