CCN measurements at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica research station during three austral summers

Herenz, Paul; Wex, Heike; Mangold, Alexander; Laffineur, Quentin; Gorodetskaya, Irina V.; Fleming, Zoë L.; Panagi, Marios; Stratmann, Frank

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-275-2019

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08 Jan 2019

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CCN measurements at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica research station during three austral summers

Paul Herenz, Heike Wex, Alexander Mangold, Quentin Laffineur, Irina V. Gorodetskaya, Zoë L. Fleming, Marios Panagi, and Frank Stratmann

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RC1: 'referee comments', Anonymous Referee #3, 13 May 2018
- AC1: 'Answer to the reviewers' report', Heike Wex, 24 Aug 2018
RC2: 'Review of „CCN measurements at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Research Station during three austral summers“ by Paul Herenz et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 06 Jun 2018
- AC2: 'Answer to the reviewers' report', Heike Wex, 24 Aug 2018

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AR by Heike Wex on behalf of the Authors (24 Aug 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (13 Oct 2018) by Paul Zieger

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (20 Oct 2018)

RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (01 Nov 2018)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (07 Nov 2018) by Paul Zieger

AR by Heike Wex on behalf of the Authors (26 Nov 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (30 Nov 2018) by Paul Zieger

Dear authors,

Thank you very much for your revisions. The manuscript is almost ready for final publication in ACP. I had another detailed read and found a few minor things which should be fixed:

Page 2, line 16: Maybe add “away” after “far”.
Page 3, line 13 and line 24: I would recommend to stick to one tense (past tense as in the other sentences).
Page 4, line 8: To be consistent with the other acronyms, I would us “CCNC” for the cloud condensation nuclei counter instead of “CCNc”.
Page 5, line 25 and Page 6, line 6: replace “l/m” by “l/min”
Page 6, second paragraph: Please mention that you mean (optical) diameters for the LAS.
Page 7, line 19: Here and throughout the manuscript: The abbreviation "Sect." should be used when it appears in running text and should be followed by a number unless it comes at the beginning of a sentence (https://www.atmospheric-chemistry-and-physics.net/for_authors/manuscript_preparation.html).
Page 8, line 24: “asl” has been used before and should thus be defined at first occurrence.
Page 11, line 1: Replace “Particle” by “particle”.
Page 13, line 10 and 12 (and in Table 2): The unit ”cm” should not be in italics (it should be cm$^{-3}$).
Page 15, line 21: Kappa for NaCl should be around 1.5. Petters and Kreidenweis erroneously transcripted it from Koehler et al. (see last paragraph on page 5 and Table 1 in Zieger et al., 2017).

I’m a bit confused about the exact time frames of the performed measurements. On page 5 (line 26) and in Figure 5 you state that you started measuring in Nov. 2012, while Figures 2 and 6 suggest that you started in Dec. 2013 Please clarify where the missing year is.

Figure 3: Please elaborate a bit more in your figure caption about what is exactly. What are the units? Concentration of what?

Figure 12: If possible, please improve your y- and x-labels. How many hours of measurements does this correspond to?

Some Latex tips:
- I would not put “PNSD” in math-mode (so remove the $-signs) or would you consider it to be a variable?
- Add ‘\rm’ in the subscript for the critical diameter D$_{\rm crit}$

Kind regards

Paul.

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AR by Heike Wex on behalf of the Authors (06 Dec 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (07 Dec 2018) by Paul Zieger

AR by Heike Wex on behalf of the Authors (07 Dec 2018)

Short summary

Atmospheric aerosol particles were observed in Antarctica, at the Belgian Princess Elisabeth station during three austral summers. Possible source regions for the particles were examined. Air that spent more than 90 %; of the time during 10 days over Antarctica had low and stable number concentrations, while the highest (new particle formation) and lowest (scavenging and wet deposition) concentrations were observed for air masses that were more strongly influenced by the Southern Ocean.