Organization of dust storms and synoptic-scale transport of dust by Kelvin waves

Pokharel, Ashok Kumar; Kaplan, Michael L.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-10-651-2019

Articles | Volume 10, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-10-651-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-10-651-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 4

Research article

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29 Oct 2019

Research article |

| 29 Oct 2019

Organization of dust storms and synoptic-scale transport of dust by Kelvin waves

Ashok Kumar Pokharel and Michael L. Kaplan

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Final revised paper (published on 29 Oct 2019)
Preprint (discussion started on 27 May 2019)

Interactive discussion

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Kelvin waves in relation to dust storms', Anonymous Referee #1, 19 Jul 2019
- AC1: 'Authors response on 1st referee comments', Ashok Kumar Pokharel, 03 Aug 2019
RC2: 'Review ESD-2019-28', Anonymous Referee #2, 23 Aug 2019
- AC2: 'Our responses in regards to comments/suggestion of 2nd referee', Ashok Kumar Pokharel, 27 Aug 2019

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

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (09 Sep 2019) by Raghavan Krishnan

AR by Ashok Kumar Pokharel on behalf of the Authors (19 Sep 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (28 Sep 2019) by Raghavan Krishnan

AR by Ashok Kumar Pokharel on behalf of the Authors (29 Sep 2019)

Short summary

This study contributes to a better understanding of how large-scale dust transport can be organized from northwest Africa to the US, Amazon basin, and Europe and might be due in part to Kelvin waves. We also think there is still a need to study major historical dust events that occurred in this region to confirm that this location is suitable and responsible for the generation of the Kelvin waves and the transport of dust on a regular basis.