Dear Authors,

Please address the minor comments from the reviewers.

Xiaohong Liu

Dear Authors,

Thanks for your great efforts to address the reviewers and community comments. I can see the manuscript is much improved in the revision. This work presents two dataset of DOD based on CALIOP and MODIS retrievals, which can be very valuable for studies of dust lifecycles and climate impacts as well as for model evaluations. Therefore, I'd suggest you to add a short discussion of the implications of this work for future dust studies, such as for model evaluations as done in Wu et al. (2020a) and Wu et al. (2020b), among others studies.

Xiaohong Liu

Wu, M., Liu, X., Yu, H., Wang, H., Shi, Y., Yang, K., Darmenov, A., Wu, C., Wang, Z., Luo, T., Feng, Y., and Ke, Z.: Understanding processes that control dust spatial distributions with global climate models and satellite observations, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 20, 13835–13855, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-13835-2020, 2020a

Wu, C., Lin, Z., and Liu, X.: The global dust cycle and uncertainty in CMIP5 (Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5) models, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 20, 10401–10425, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-10401-2020, 2020b.