Articles | Volume 25, issue 19
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-12657-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.Toxic dust emission from drought-exposed lake beds – a new air pollution threat from dried lakes
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- Final revised paper (published on 10 Oct 2025)
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RC1: 'Comment on egusphere-2025-596', Anonymous Referee #1, 18 Apr 2025
- AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Xiaofei Wang, 27 Jun 2025
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RC2: 'Comment on egusphere-2025-596', Anonymous Referee #2, 23 Apr 2025
- AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Xiaofei Wang, 27 Jun 2025
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AR by Xiaofei Wang on behalf of the Authors (27 Jun 2025)
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ED: Publish as is (18 Jul 2025) by Yves Balkanski

AR by Xiaofei Wang on behalf of the Authors (23 Jul 2025)
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Overall, the paper is well written, it is clear, and the work is interesting. I think small changes are needed to improve the paper.
You need more discussion in the introduction section about the presence of heavy metals and PAHs in dust events in general, to show if the lake produces more, and how the emissions you found compare to these findings.
The map( Figure 1) should appear earlier to explain the sampling locations, as it was unclear to me until I got to the result part and saw that figure. Also, the usage of A, B, and C is weird. Can you give it a normal name?
Consider moving some of the figs from the supplement section to the main section, as some of them are important for the understanding of the paper.
You have several figs that seem too small, like Fig 2, or I couldn't see the numbers of some of the figures in the supplements, as Fig S5, the yellow color is not showing, and the size of the figures was very hard to examine, even when I used a magnification of 200
Specific comments
Line 68, Owen Lake is not the primary dust source in the US
Line 151 misplacement of () in citation
Lines 444-454: Is there any level of exposure for these metals that you could add to how, if the values were above these thresholds
Line 473 is missing a space between s15 and to present
Table S5 seems like a mistake, or unclear, most heavy metals do not have values.