Analysis of extinction properties as a function of relative humidity using a <i>κ</i>-EC-Mie model in Nanjing

Zhang, Zefeng; Shen, Yan; Li, Yanwei; Zhu, Bin; Yu, Xingna

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-4147-2017

Articles | Volume 17, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-4147-2017

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-4147-2017

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

Articles | Volume 17, issue 6

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28 Mar 2017

Research article |

| 28 Mar 2017

Analysis of extinction properties as a function of relative humidity using a κ-EC-Mie model in Nanjing

Zefeng Zhang, Yan Shen, Yanwei Li, Bin Zhu, and Xingna Yu

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RC1: 'Anonymous referee 1', Anonymous Referee #2, 06 Jun 2016
- AC1: 'response 1', yanwei li, 18 Aug 2016
RC2: 'Comments from Referee #2 .', Anonymous Referee #1, 27 Jun 2016
- AC2: 'response 2', yanwei li, 18 Aug 2016

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

AR by yanwei li on behalf of the Authors (18 Aug 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (12 Sep 2016) by Tuukka Petäjä

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (28 Sep 2016)

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (01 Oct 2016)

Suggestions for revision or reasons for rejection

I think the manuscript has been improved from the previous one. The results the manuscript presented are interesting and of importance, which fill the data pool of extinction properties globally. However, I still have some comments regarding to the current version:

1) The presentation or writing of the manuscript should be improved much more. There are too many long, wired, improper statements in the manuscript, for example: Page 3, line 4-6; Page 3, line 22-25; Page 4, line 5; Page 5, line 22-30; Page 7, line 14-16; Page 11, line 14-15, ect.... Please consider going through the whole manuscript and maybe asking someone who has more experience in English writing to check it.
2) The author presented 11 figures, eight of which were about time series. Since the article is not focusing on time series analysis, I suggest the author replace some of them as scatter plot. For instance, the author compared PM2.5 with visibility and PM2.5 with the total particle number concentration. However, it is not obvious to see how well their negative or positive correlations in the time series of Fig. 2 or Fig. 3. Hence, scatter plot might be more useful. From the time series of Fig. 4 to Fig. 8, no critical findings or conclusions were driven by the author and the information presented in these time series figures are obviously not clear. I suggest the author consider moving them into supplementary material or giving more discussion.
3) I am not satisfied with the author’s response to Question 6 from Referee 1 (see acp-2016-119-AC1-supplement-2). The internally mixed and externally mixed results are not shown in Fig. 1, which is not consistent with its figure caption and figure legend or where are the green and red curves?

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ED: Reconsider after minor revisions (Editor review) (04 Oct 2016) by Tuukka Petäjä

AR by yanwei li on behalf of the Authors (14 Oct 2016) Manuscript

ED: Reconsider after minor revisions (Editor review) (14 Nov 2016) by Tuukka Petäjä

AR by yanwei li on behalf of the Authors (22 Nov 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (06 Dec 2016) by Tuukka Petäjä

AR by yanwei li on behalf of the Authors (12 Dec 2016)

Short summary

Aerosol particles and relative humidity are the main factors that affect atmospheric visibility. Due to the complexity of the physicochemical properties of aerosol particles, more and more instruments and cost were put into research, which limited the development of large area observation research. Thus, it is especially important to find the key parameters which affect the visibility and to establish the observation scheme.