Dear Dr. Zhang

Please revise your paper by following the attached comments and send it back in one month.

Regards,

Jianping Huang

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In this paper, dust deposition and PM10 concentration in northwest China. The dataset is useful both for the dust assessment and for future model comparison. The paper is reasonably well written.

A problem is however that the flow pattern in the Tarim Basin is not analysed. This is problematic, because dust distribution in the basin is strongly affected by the flow pattern in the basin. We know that the high dust concentration in the southern part of the basin is due to due transport and convective activities. as one of the authors, e.g., Prof. Zifa Wang, has done a lot of air quality simulations, I would guess that he knows well about the flow pattern in the basin.

Related to this is that I find the regression graphs are not so meaningful, because these relationships are not anything universal. In general, I wish the paper can be written more concisely.

There are several minor issues:
(1) Xinjiang Province is not the correct Chinese expression
(2) Introduction is somewhat weak. More focus should be on the scientific problem
(3) P4, L13, cite the WMO document
(4) which areas are norh, east and south Xinjiang?