Articles | Volume 25, issue 19
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-11935-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.Tracing ammonia emission sources in California's Salton Sea region: insights from airborne longwave-infrared hyperspectral imaging and ground monitoring
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RC1: 'Comment on egusphere-2025-1378', Anonymous Referee #1, 23 Apr 2025
- AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Sina Hasheminassab, 18 Jun 2025
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AR by Sina Hasheminassab on behalf of the Authors (18 Jun 2025)
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ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (27 Jun 2025) by Kelvin Bates
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RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (07 Jul 2025)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (15 Jul 2025) by Kelvin Bates

AR by Sina Hasheminassab on behalf of the Authors (15 Jul 2025)
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ED: Publish as is (16 Jul 2025) by Kelvin Bates

AR by Sina Hasheminassab on behalf of the Authors (18 Jul 2025)
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This manuscript integrates airborne, ground-based, and mobile measurements to map NH3 emissions in two source regions in California. The paper is well written and the structure is clear. The results are important for improving the ammonia emission inventories. I only have minor comments as follows:
Presentation issues:
Section 3.1: Please quantitatively summarize the overall performance of airborne measurements to identify emissions sources, e.g., how many CAFOs/GPPs could be identified.
Figure 8: I am not sure if plume A to I were chosen based on the time series or emission sources - please clarify.
Figure 9: There is no marked source in plume A. I suggest switching the colorbar to log scale and using the size of the marker to denote cattle population for each CAFO facility. Also, please add latitudes, longitudes, and wind direction for each panel.
Discussions: It would be helpful to compare the resolution of satellite maps versus airborne measurements in this study to highlight the advantage of this study.
Conclusions: I recommend stating the conclusions more quantitatively.
Minor comments:
Line 35: add citation
Line 38: Please cite commonly used ammonia emission inventories here besides Zeng et al., 2018
Line 57: needs citation for the first sentence of the paragraph
Line 160: Please briefly discuss the detection limit and validation results here instead of referring to the literature