AerSett v1.0: a simple and straightforward model for the settling speed of big spherical atmospheric aerosols

Mailler, Sylvain; Menut, Laurent; Cholakian, Arineh; Pennel, Romain

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-1119-2023

Articles | Volume 16, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-1119-2023

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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-1119-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 3

Development and technical paper

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15 Feb 2023

Development and technical paper |

| 15 Feb 2023

AerSett v1.0: a simple and straightforward model for the settling speed of big spherical atmospheric aerosols

Sylvain Mailler, Laurent Menut, Arineh Cholakian, and Romain Pennel

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Final revised paper (published on 15 Feb 2023)
Preprint (discussion started on 21 Oct 2022)

Interactive discussion

Status: closed

RC1:
'Comment on gmd-2022-247', Anonymous Referee #1, 17 Nov 2022

The comment was uploaded in the form of a supplement: https://gmd.copernicus.org/preprints/gmd-2022-247/gmd-2022-247-RC1-supplement.pdf

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2022-247-RC1
- AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Sylvain Mailler, 13 Jan 2023
  
  We are grateful to Anonymous Reviewer #1 for his/her careful Review of our manuscript. His/her review and that of Reviewer #2 helped us construct an enhanced version of the manuscript, with two new sections, one for including the slip correction factor in our method as suggested, one to quantify the performance improvement compared to other methods. Please find attached our detailed answer as well as the description of these modifications.
  
  Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2022-247-AC1
RC2:
'Comment on gmd-2022-247', Anonymous Referee #2, 24 Nov 2022

The comment was uploaded in the form of a supplement: https://gmd.copernicus.org/preprints/gmd-2022-247/gmd-2022-247-RC2-supplement.pdf

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2022-247-RC2
- AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Sylvain Mailler, 13 Jan 2023
  
  We are grateful to Anonymous Reviewer #1 for his/her careful Review of our manuscript. His/her review and that of Reviewer #2 helped us construct an enhanced version of the manuscript, with two new sections, one for including the slip correction factor in our method as suggested, one to quantify the performance improvement compared to other methods.
  
  Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2022-247-AC2

Peer review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision | EF: Editorial file upload

AR by Sylvain Mailler on behalf of the Authors (13 Jan 2023) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (02 Feb 2023) by Samuel Remy

AR by Sylvain Mailler on behalf of the Authors (02 Feb 2023)

Short summary

Large or even giant particles of mineral dust exist in the atmosphere but, so far, solving an non-linear equation was needed to calculate the speed at which they fall in the atmosphere. The model we present, AerSett v1.0 (AERosol SETTling version 1.0), provides a new and simple way of calculating their free-fall velocity in the atmosphere, which will be useful to anyone trying to understand and represent adequately the transport of giant dust particles by the wind.