Satellite retrievals of dust aerosol over the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf (2005–2015)

Banks, Jamie R.; Brindley, Helen E.; Stenchikov, Georgiy; Schepanski, Kerstin

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-3987-2017

Articles | Volume 17, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-3987-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-3987-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 6

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24 Mar 2017

Research article |

| 24 Mar 2017

Satellite retrievals of dust aerosol over the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf (2005–2015)

Jamie R. Banks, Helen E. Brindley, Georgiy Stenchikov, and Kerstin Schepanski

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Final revised paper (published on 24 Mar 2017)
Preprint (discussion started on 07 Nov 2016)

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RC1: 'Review of Banks et al.', Andrew Sayer, 16 Nov 2016
- AC1: 'Reply to Andrew Sayer's review of "Satellite retrievals of dust aerosol over the Red Sea, 2005-2015"', Jamie Banks, 03 Feb 2017
RC2: 'Review of "Satellite retrievals of dust aerosol over the Red Sea, 2005-2015"', Anonymous Referee #2, 14 Dec 2016
- AC2: 'Reply to Reviewer #2's review of "Satellite retrievals of dust aerosol over the Red Sea, 2005-2015"', Jamie Banks, 03 Feb 2017

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Jamie Banks on behalf of the Authors (03 Feb 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (09 Feb 2017) by Rolf Müller

RR by Andrew Sayer (13 Feb 2017)

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (23 Feb 2017)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (03 Mar 2017) by Rolf Müller

AR by Jamie Banks on behalf of the Authors (06 Mar 2017) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

From an 11-year analysis of satellite measurements of atmospheric dust presence over the Red Sea, it is clear that there is a strong north–south gradient in dust activity and a pronounced interannual variability in this activity. Analysing two commonly used satellite retrieval methods to quantify dust presence, we find that under the most extreme dust storm conditions the measured dust optical thicknesses can diverge strongly between the two methods.