Revealing the meteorological drivers of the September 2015 severe dust event in the Eastern Mediterranean

Gasch, Philipp; Rieger, Daniel; Walter, Carolin; Khain, Pavel; Levi, Yoav; Knippertz, Peter; Vogel, Bernhard

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-13573-2017

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15 Nov 2017

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Revealing the meteorological drivers of the September 2015 severe dust event in the Eastern Mediterranean

Philipp Gasch, Daniel Rieger, Carolin Walter, Pavel Khain, Yoav Levi, Peter Knippertz, and Bernhard Vogel

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SC1: 'additional comments', Albert Ansmann, 28 Mar 2017
- AC1: 'Response to SC1', Philipp Gasch, 14 Jul 2017
RC1: 'Review of the manuscript “An analysis of the September 2015 severe dust event in the Eastern Mediterranean”', Anonymous Referee #1, 03 Apr 2017
- AC2: 'Reply to RC1', Philipp Gasch, 14 Jul 2017
RC2: 'review of paper by Gasch et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 19 May 2017
- AC3: 'Reply to RC2', Philipp Gasch, 14 Jul 2017

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AR by Philipp Gasch on behalf of the Authors (14 Jul 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (21 Jul 2017) by Heini Wernli

RR by Albert Ansmann (01 Aug 2017)

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (02 Aug 2017)

ED: Reconsider after minor revisions (Editor review) (02 Aug 2017) by Heini Wernli

AR by Philipp Gasch on behalf of the Authors (15 Sep 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (19 Sep 2017) by Heini Wernli

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This paper presents simulations of a severe dust event in the Eastern Mediterranean with a weather prediction model using very high spatial resolution. Due to the high resolution, the small-scale features of the event are captured in great detail. Consequently, the previously erroneous forecast of the event is improved drastically. In addition, the interaction of mineral dust with radiation inside the model has been included as a part of this work and is presented here.