An atmospheric inversion over the city of Cape Town:  sensitivity analyses

Nickless, Alecia; Rayner, Peter J.; Scholes, Robert J.; Engelbrecht, Francois; Erni, Birgit

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-7789-2019

Articles | Volume 19, issue 11

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-7789-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-7789-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 19, issue 11

Research article

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12 Jun 2019

Research article |

| 12 Jun 2019

An atmospheric inversion over the city of Cape Town: sensitivity analyses

Alecia Nickless, Peter J. Rayner, Robert J. Scholes, Francois Engelbrecht, and Birgit Erni

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RC1: 'Review comments on "An atmospheric inversion over the city of Cape Town: sensitivity analyses"', Anonymous Referee #1, 24 Sep 2018
RC2: 'Presentation needs improving', Neil Harris, 24 Oct 2018
AC1: 'Response to Reviewer Comments on Nickless et al., “An atmospheric inversion over the city of Cape Town: sensitivity analyses”', Alecia Nickless, 11 Dec 2018

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AR by Alecia Nickless on behalf of the Authors (09 Apr 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (17 Apr 2019) by Neil Harris

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (06 May 2019)

RR by Neil Harris (14 May 2019)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (14 May 2019) by Neil Harris

AR by Alecia Nickless on behalf of the Authors (22 May 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (23 May 2019) by Neil Harris

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Different frameworks for an atmospheric inversion study over Cape Town, South Africa, are considered. We focused particularly on how sensitive the estimates of CO₂ fluxes were to changes in the way the uncertainty in these estimates was specified and the impact different prior information had on the final flux estimates. We used atmospheric measurements from two new sites located near Cape Town: Robben Island and Hangklip lighthouses, which were specifically deployed for this inversion study.