Aircraft and ground measurements of dust aerosols over the west African coast in summer 2015 during ICE-D and AER-D

Liu, Dantong; Taylor, Jonathan W.; Crosier, Jonathan; Marsden, Nicholas; Bower, Keith N.; Lloyd, Gary; Ryder, Claire L.; Brooke, Jennifer K.; Cotton, Richard; Marenco, Franco; Blyth, Alan; Cui, Zhiqiang; Estelles, Victor; Gallagher, Martin; Coe, Hugh; Choularton, Tom W.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-3817-2018

Articles | Volume 18, issue 5

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 3817–3838, 2018

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-3817-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 3817–3838, 2018

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-3817-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 5

Research article 16 Mar 2018

Research article | 16 Mar 2018

Aircraft and ground measurements of dust aerosols over the west African coast in summer 2015 during ICE-D and AER-D

Dantong Liu et al.

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RC1: 'Revision of the paper by Liu et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 29 Nov 2017
RC2: 'Review', Cynthia Twohy, 06 Dec 2017
RC3: 'comments of reviewer #2', Anonymous Referee #3, 08 Dec 2017
AC1: 'Reply to referees', Dantong Liu, 19 Jan 2018

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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (13 Feb 2018) by Timothy J. Dunkerton

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This article presents measurements of aerosol properties off the coast of west Africa during August 2015. For the first time, an airborne laser-induced incandescence instrument was deployed to measure the hematite content of dust. The single scattering albedo of dust was found to be influenced by the hematite content, but depended on the dust source and potential dust age. This highlights the importance of size-dependent composition in determining the optical properties of dust.