Assimilating spaceborne lidar dust extinction can improve dust forecasts

Escribano, Jerónimo; Di Tomaso, Enza; Jorba, Oriol; Klose, Martina; Gonçalves Ageitos, Maria; Macchia, Francesca; Amiridis, Vassilis; Baars, Holger; Marinou, Eleni; Proestakis, Emmanouil; Urbanneck, Claudia; Althausen, Dietrich; Bühl, Johannes; Mamouri, Rodanthi-Elisavet; Pérez García-Pando, Carlos

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-535-2022

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14 Jan 2022

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| 14 Jan 2022

Assimilating spaceborne lidar dust extinction can improve dust forecasts

Jerónimo Escribano, Enza Di Tomaso, Oriol Jorba, Martina Klose, Maria Gonçalves Ageitos, Francesca Macchia, Vassilis Amiridis, Holger Baars, Eleni Marinou, Emmanouil Proestakis, Claudia Urbanneck, Dietrich Althausen, Johannes Bühl, Rodanthi-Elisavet Mamouri, and Carlos Pérez García-Pando

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RC1: 'Comment on acp-2021-442', Julie Letertre-Danczak, 05 Jul 2021

Well done for this really good article either for the quality of the work and the quality of writing.

Please find here few comments which I would like to be considerate (it is only typo and colour scales issue).

L72: can you precise here the model used for the spheroidal-shape dust?

Figure1: The figure should be placed after the section 2.1.2 as it makes no sense and questioning why the deep blue is here as it is not mentioned in the text yet.

L152: Section A should be replaced by Appendix A

Figure 5: the colour scale is difficult to read.

Figure 7: Section A should be replaced by Appendix A

L 367: Section A should be replaced by Appendix A

Figure 8: the colour scale is difficult to read.

L404: LIVAS was were assimilated, you should choose between were and was.

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2021-442-RC1
RC2: 'Comment on acp-2021-442', Anonymous Referee #2, 30 Sep 2021

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AC1: 'Comment on acp-2021-442', Jeronimo Escribano, 11 Nov 2021

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AR by Jeronimo Escribano on behalf of the Authors (11 Nov 2021) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (23 Nov 2021) by Yves Balkanski

AR by Jeronimo Escribano on behalf of the Authors (26 Nov 2021)

Short summary

We explore the benefits and consistency in adding lidar dust observations in a dust optical depth assimilation. We show that adding lidar data to a dust optical depth assimilation has valuable benefits and the dust analysis improves. We discuss the impact of the narrow satellite footprint of the lidar dust observations on the assimilation.