Newly identified climatically and environmentally significant high-latitude dust sources

Meinander, Outi; Dagsson-Waldhauserova, Pavla; Amosov, Pavel; Aseyeva, Elena; Atkins, Cliff; Baklanov, Alexander; Baldo, Clarissa; Barr, Sarah L.; Barzycka, Barbara; Benning, Liane G.; Cvetkovic, Bojan; Enchilik, Polina; Frolov, Denis; Gassó, Santiago; Kandler, Konrad; Kasimov, Nikolay; Kavan, Jan; King, James; Koroleva, Tatyana; Krupskaya, Viktoria; Kulmala, Markku; Kusiak, Monika; Lappalainen, Hanna K.; Laska, Michał; Lasne, Jerome; Lewandowski, Marek; Luks, Bartłomiej; McQuaid, James B.; Moroni, Beatrice; Murray, Benjamin; Möhler, Ottmar; Nawrot, Adam; Nickovic, Slobodan; O’Neill, Norman T.; Pejanovic, Goran; Popovicheva, Olga; Ranjbar, Keyvan; Romanias, Manolis; Samonova, Olga; Sanchez-Marroquin, Alberto; Schepanski, Kerstin; Semenkov, Ivan; Sharapova, Anna; Shevnina, Elena; Shi, Zongbo; Sofiev, Mikhail; Thevenet, Frédéric; Thorsteinsson, Throstur; Timofeev, Mikhail; Umo, Nsikanabasi Silas; Uppstu, Andreas; Urupina, Darya; Varga, György; Werner, Tomasz; Arnalds, Olafur; Vukovic Vimic, Ana

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-11889-2022

Articles | Volume 22, issue 17

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 22, 11889–11930, 2022

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-11889-2022

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Special issue: Arctic climate, air quality, and health impacts from short-lived...

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 22, 11889–11930, 2022

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-11889-2022

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Research article

14 Sep 2022

Research article | 14 Sep 2022

Newly identified climatically and environmentally significant high-latitude dust sources

Outi Meinander et al.

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RC1: 'Comment on acp-2021-963', Anonymous Referee #1, 16 Jan 2022

The comment was uploaded in the form of a supplement: https://acp.copernicus.org/preprints/acp-2021-963/acp-2021-963-RC1-supplement.pdf

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2021-963-RC1
RC2: 'Comment on acp-2021-963', Anonymous Referee #2, 27 Jan 2022

my review is attached

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2021-963-RC2
AC1: 'Comment on acp-2021-963', Outi Meinander, 11 Mar 2022

Please find our response to all referees in the attached PDF file.

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2021-963-AC1

Peer review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Outi Meinander on behalf of the Authors (08 Apr 2022) Author's response

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (17 Apr 2022) by Susannah Burrows

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (29 Apr 2022)

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (04 May 2022)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (22 May 2022) by Susannah Burrows

AR by Outi Meinander on behalf of the Authors (31 May 2022) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (17 Jun 2022) by Susannah Burrows

AR by Outi Meinander on behalf of the Authors (21 Jun 2022) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

High-latitude dust (HLD) is a short-lived climate forcer, air pollutant, and nutrient source. Our results suggest a northern HLD belt at 50–58° N in Eurasia and 50–55° N in Canada and at >60° N in Eurasia and >58° N in Canada. Our addition to the previously identified global dust belt (GDB) provides crucially needed information on the extent of active HLD sources with both direct and indirect impacts on climate and environment in remote regions, which are often poorly understood and predicted.