Saharan dust contribution to the Caribbean summertime boundary layer –
a lidar study during SALTRACE

Groß, Silke; Gasteiger, Josef; Freudenthaler, Volker; Müller, Thomas; Sauer, Daniel; Toledano, Carlos; Ansmann, Albert

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-11535-2016

Articles | Volume 16, issue 18

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-11535-2016

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-11535-2016

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16 Sep 2016

Research article |

| 16 Sep 2016

Saharan dust contribution to the Caribbean summertime boundary layer – a lidar study during SALTRACE

Silke Groß, Josef Gasteiger, Volker Freudenthaler, Thomas Müller, Daniel Sauer, Carlos Toledano, and Albert Ansmann

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Final revised paper (published on 16 Sep 2016)
Preprint (discussion started on 11 Apr 2016)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'review', Anonymous Referee #1, 09 May 2016
- AC1: 'Answers to reviewer comments', Silke Gross, 22 Jul 2016
RC2: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #2, 11 May 2016
- AC2: 'Answers to reviewer comments', Silke Gross, 22 Jul 2016
RC3: 'Paper Review', Anonymous Referee #3, 15 May 2016
- AC3: 'Answers to reviewer comments', Silke Gross, 22 Jul 2016

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AR by Silke Gross on behalf of the Authors (22 Jul 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (02 Aug 2016) by Cyrille Flamant

Short summary

Dual-wavelength depolarization sensitive Raman lidar measurements were used to characterize the optical properties of the dust loaded convective boundary layer over the Caribbean. Furthermore we derived the dust volume fraction and dust mass concentration within the convective boundary layer.