Apparent dust size discrepancy in aerosol reanalysis in north African dust after long-range transport

Kramer, Samantha J.; Alvarez, Claudia; Barkley, Anne E.; Colarco, Peter R.; Custals, Lillian; Delgadillo, Rodrigo; Gaston, Cassandra J.; Govindaraju, Ravi; Zuidema, Paquita

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-10047-2020

Articles | Volume 20, issue 16

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-10047-2020

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-10047-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 20, issue 16

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28 Aug 2020

Research article |

| 28 Aug 2020

Apparent dust size discrepancy in aerosol reanalysis in north African dust after long-range transport

Samantha J. Kramer, Claudia Alvarez, Anne E. Barkley, Peter R. Colarco, Lillian Custals, Rodrigo Delgadillo, Cassandra J. Gaston, Ravi Govindaraju, and Paquita Zuidema

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RC1: 'Review of Kramer et al.', Jasper Kok, 24 Apr 2020
RC2: 'Review of manuscript acp-2020-1', Anonymous Referee #2, 14 May 2020
AC1: 'Author Response', Paquita Zuidema, 06 Jun 2020

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (26 Jun 2020) by Andreas Petzold

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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (17 Jul 2020) by Andreas Petzold

AR by Paquita Zuidema on behalf of the Authors (24 Jul 2020) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

Comparisons of sea salt and size-resolved dust mass concentration measurements over southeast Florida to those from the MERRA-2/GEOS-5 FP aerosol reanalysis show the reanalysis depicts excessive sea salt and puts too much dust in larger intermediate sizes than do the measurements. The vertical distribution of the dust mass is approximately correct. The incorrect reanalysis aerosol speciation and dust sizes have implications for the modeling of their transport, deposition, and radiative impact.