Quantifying local-scale dust emission from the Arabian Red Sea coastal plain

Anisimov, Anatolii; Tao, Weichun; Stenchikov, Georgiy; Kalenderski, Stoitchko; Prakash, P. Jish; Yang, Zong-Liang; Shi, Mingjie

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-993-2017

Articles | Volume 17, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-993-2017

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-993-2017

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

Articles | Volume 17, issue 2

Research article

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23 Jan 2017

Research article |

| 23 Jan 2017

Quantifying local-scale dust emission from the Arabian Red Sea coastal plain

Anatolii Anisimov, Weichun Tao, Georgiy Stenchikov, Stoitchko Kalenderski, P. Jish Prakash, Zong-Liang Yang, and Mingjie Shi

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RC1: 'Referee Comment on acp-2016-723', Anonymous Referee #1, 20 Sep 2016
- AC1: 'Replies to referee's comments', Anatolii Anisimov, 09 Oct 2016
RC2: 'Review on "Quantifying local-scale dust emission from the Arabian Red Sea coastal plain'' by Anisimov et al. (2016)', Anonymous Referee #2, 27 Sep 2016
RC3: 'Referee comment on acp-2016-723', Anonymous Referee #3, 10 Oct 2016
- AC2: 'Replies to referee's comments', Anatolii Anisimov, 19 Oct 2016

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

AR by Anatolii Anisimov on behalf of the Authors (17 Dec 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (21 Dec 2016) by Kostas Tsigaridis

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (22 Dec 2016)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (22 Dec 2016) by Kostas Tsigaridis

AR by Anatolii Anisimov on behalf of the Authors (29 Dec 2016) Author's response Manuscript

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This study is aimed at quantifying the fine-scale structure of dust emission from the western coastal plain of the Arabian Peninsula. Using the high-resolution modeling tools and up-to-date satellite inventories, we simulate and analyze the spatial and temporal variability of dust generation. The estimate of total dust emission from the coastal plain is 7.5 ± 0.5 Mt per year. We show that the study area is a stable dust generation zone and a potential source of mineral nutrients for the Red Sea.