Ship-borne aerosol profiling with lidar over the Atlantic Ocean: from pure marine conditions to complex dust–smoke mixtures

Bohlmann, Stephanie; Baars, Holger; Radenz, Martin; Engelmann, Ronny; Macke, Andreas

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-9661-2018

Articles | Volume 18, issue 13

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-9661-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-9661-2018

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

Articles | Volume 18, issue 13

Research article

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09 Jul 2018

Research article |

| 09 Jul 2018

Ship-borne aerosol profiling with lidar over the Atlantic Ocean: from pure marine conditions to complex dust–smoke mixtures

Stephanie Bohlmann, Holger Baars, Martin Radenz, Ronny Engelmann, and Andreas Macke

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Final revised paper (published on 09 Jul 2018)
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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Overall Comments', Ali Omar, 08 Apr 2018
- AC1: 'Letter of Reply to Ali Omar', Stephanie Bohlmann, 07 Jun 2018
RC2: 'review', Anonymous Referee #2, 12 Apr 2018
- AC2: 'Letter of Reply to Referee #2', Stephanie Bohlmann, 07 Jun 2018
RC3: 'Review of acp-2018-54 by Bohlmann et al.', Anonymous Referee #3, 24 Apr 2018
- AC3: 'Letter of Reply to Referee 3', Stephanie Bohlmann, 07 Jun 2018

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AR by Stephanie Bohlmann on behalf of the Authors (08 Jun 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (08 Jun 2018) by Armin Sorooshian

AR by Stephanie Bohlmann on behalf of the Authors (18 Jun 2018)

Short summary

Lidar measurements of two expeditions across the Atlantic Ocean aboard the research vessel Polarstern are presented. In addition to Saharan dust layers and complex dust–smoke mixtures, pure marine conditions with enhanced particle depolarisation ratios on top of the marine boundary layer could be observed. A statistical analysis shows latitudinal differences in the optical properties within the marine boundary layer and illustrates the potential of these properties for aerosol classification.