Sea salt aerosol production via sublimating wind-blown saline snow particles over sea ice: parameterizations and  relevant microphysical mechanisms

Yang, Xin; Frey, Markus M.; Rhodes, Rachael H.; Norris, Sarah J.; Brooks, Ian M.; Anderson, Philip S.; Nishimura, Kouichi; Jones, Anna E.; Wolff, Eric W.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-8407-2019

Articles | Volume 19, issue 13

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-8407-2019

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

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-8407-2019

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

Articles | Volume 19, issue 13

Research article

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02 Jul 2019

Research article |

| 02 Jul 2019

Sea salt aerosol production via sublimating wind-blown saline snow particles over sea ice: parameterizations and relevant microphysical mechanisms

Xin Yang, Markus M. Frey, Rachael H. Rhodes, Sarah J. Norris, Ian M. Brooks, Philip S. Anderson, Kouichi Nishimura, Anna E. Jones, and Eric W. Wolff

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RC1: 'comments from reviewers 1', Anonymous Referee #1, 02 Jan 2019
- AC1: 'Reply to reviewer #1 comments', Xin Yang, 03 Apr 2019
RC2: 'Comments for manuscript by Yang et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 12 Feb 2019
- AC2: 'Reply to reviewer #2 comments', Xin Yang, 03 Apr 2019

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AR by Xin Yang on behalf of the Authors (23 Apr 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (01 May 2019) by Christopher Hoyle

AR by Xin Yang on behalf of the Authors (16 May 2019) Manuscript

Short summary

This is a comprehensive model–data comparison aiming to evaluate the proposed mechanism of sea salt aerosol (SSA) production from blowing snow on sea ice. Some key parameters such as snow salinity and blowing-snow size distribution were constrained by data collected in the Weddell Sea. The good agreement between modelled SSA and the cruise data strongly indicates that sea ice surface is a large SSA source in polar regions, a process which has not been considered in current climate models.