Brief communication: An alternative method for estimating the scavenging efficiency of black carbon by meltwater over sea ice

Dou, Tingfeng; Du, Zhiheng; Li, Shutong; Zhang, Yulan; Zhang, Qi; Hao, Mingju; Li, Chuanjin; Tian, Biao; Ding, Minghu; Xiao, Cunde

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-3309-2019

Articles | Volume 13, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-3309-2019

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

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-3309-2019

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

Articles | Volume 13, issue 12

Brief communication

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11 Dec 2019

Brief communication |

| 11 Dec 2019

Brief communication: An alternative method for estimating the scavenging efficiency of black carbon by meltwater over sea ice

Tingfeng Dou, Zhiheng Du, Shutong Li, Yulan Zhang, Qi Zhang, Mingju Hao, Chuanjin Li, Biao Tian, Minghu Ding, and Cunde Xiao

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RC1: 'review of Dou et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 24 Jul 2019
- AC1: 'Author's response to Reviewer#1', Tingfeng Dou, 30 Sep 2019
- AC2: 'Author's response to Reviewer#1', Tingfeng Dou, 30 Sep 2019
- AC5: 'Author's response to Reviewer#1', Tingfeng Dou, 01 Oct 2019
RC2: 'See attached review_tc-2019-147.pdf', Howard Conway, 31 Jul 2019
- AC3: 'Author's response to Reviewer#2', Tingfeng Dou, 01 Oct 2019
RC3: 'Amendment to my review', Howard Conway, 03 Aug 2019
- AC4: 'Author's response to the additional comments from the Reviewer#2', Tingfeng Dou, 01 Oct 2019

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

ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (07 Oct 2019) by John Yackel

AR by Tingfeng Dou on behalf of the Authors (25 Oct 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (31 Oct 2019) by John Yackel

AR by Tingfeng Dou on behalf of the Authors (04 Nov 2019) Manuscript

Short summary

The meltwater scavenging coefficient (MSC) determines the BC enrichment in the surface layer of melting snow and therefore modulates the BC-snow-albedo feedbacks. This study presents a new method for MSC estimation over the sea-ice area in Arctic. Using this new method, we analyze the spatial variability of MSC in the western Arctic and demonstrate that the value in Canada Basin (23.6 % ± 2.1 %) ≈ that in Greenland (23.0 % ± 12.5 %) > that in Chukchi Sea (17.9 % ± 5.0 %) > that in Elson Lagoon (14.5 % ± 2.6 %).