Long-term profiling of mineral dust and pollution aerosol with multiwavelength polarization Raman lidar at the Central Asian site of Dushanbe, Tajikistan: case studies

Hofer, Julian; Althausen, Dietrich; Abdullaev, Sabur F.; Makhmudov, Abduvosit N.; Nazarov, Bakhron I.; Schettler, Georg; Engelmann, Ronny; Baars, Holger; Fomba, K. Wadinga; Müller, Konrad; Heinold, Bernd; Kandler, Konrad; Ansmann, Albert

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-14559-2017

Articles | Volume 17, issue 23

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-14559-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-14559-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 23

Research article

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07 Dec 2017

Research article |

| 07 Dec 2017

Long-term profiling of mineral dust and pollution aerosol with multiwavelength polarization Raman lidar at the Central Asian site of Dushanbe, Tajikistan: case studies

Julian Hofer, Dietrich Althausen, Sabur F. Abdullaev, Abduvosit N. Makhmudov, Bakhron I. Nazarov, Georg Schettler, Ronny Engelmann, Holger Baars, K. Wadinga Fomba, Konrad Müller, Bernd Heinold, Konrad Kandler, and Albert Ansmann

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RC1: 'Referee comments', Anonymous Referee #1, 16 Aug 2017
- AC1: 'AC1 Letter of Reply to Referee 1', J. Hofer, 10 Oct 2017
RC2: 'Long-term profiling of mineral dust and pollution aerosol with multiwavelength polarization/Raman lidar at the Central Asian site of Dushanbe, Tajikistan: Case studies', Anonymous Referee #3, 16 Aug 2017
- AC2: 'AC1 Letter of Reply to Referee 3', J. Hofer, 10 Oct 2017
RC3: 'Review of the paper by Hofer et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 04 Sep 2017
- AC3: 'AC2 Letter of Reply to Referee 2', J. Hofer, 10 Oct 2017

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AR by Julian Hofer on behalf of the Authors (24 Oct 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (25 Oct 2017) by Matthias Tesche

AR by Julian Hofer on behalf of the Authors (01 Nov 2017)

Short summary

The Central Asian Dust Experiment provides unprecedented data on vertically resolved aerosol optical properties over Central Asia from continuous 18-month polarization Raman lidar observations in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Central Asia is affected by climate change (e.g. glacier retreat) but in a large part missing vertically resolved aerosol measurements, which would help to better understand transport of dust and pollution aerosol across Central Asia and their influence on climate and health.