Diurnal cycle of coastal anthropogenic pollutant transport over southern West Africa during the DACCIWA campaign

Deroubaix, Adrien; Menut, Laurent; Flamant, Cyrille; Brito, Joel; Denjean, Cyrielle; Dreiling, Volker; Fink, Andreas; Jambert, Corinne; Kalthoff, Norbert; Knippertz, Peter; Ladkin, Russ; Mailler, Sylvain; Maranan, Marlon; Pacifico, Federica; Piguet, Bruno; Siour, Guillaume; Turquety, Solène

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-473-2019

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14 Jan 2019

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| 14 Jan 2019

Diurnal cycle of coastal anthropogenic pollutant transport over southern West Africa during the DACCIWA campaign

Adrien Deroubaix, Laurent Menut, Cyrille Flamant, Joel Brito, Cyrielle Denjean, Volker Dreiling, Andreas Fink, Corinne Jambert, Norbert Kalthoff, Peter Knippertz, Russ Ladkin, Sylvain Mailler, Marlon Maranan, Federica Pacifico, Bruno Piguet, Guillaume Siour, and Solène Turquety

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RC1: 'Review of Deroubaix et al., 2018', Anonymous Referee #1, 30 Aug 2018
RC2: 'Review of Diurnal cycle of coastal anthropogenic pollutant transport over southern West Africa during the DACCIWA campaign', Anonymous Referee #2, 27 Sep 2018
AC1: 'Answers to the referee comments', Adrien Deroubaix, 15 Nov 2018

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AR by Adrien Deroubaix on behalf of the Authors (17 Dec 2018)

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This article presents a detailed analysis of anthropogenic and biomass burning pollutants over the Gulf of Guinea coastal region, using observations from the DACCIWA field campaign and modeling. The novelty is that we focus on how these two pollution sources are mixed and transported further inland. We show that during the day pollutants are accumulated along the coastline and transported northward as soon as the daytime convection in the atmospheric boundary layer ceases (16:00 UTC).