Atmospheric brown clouds reach the Tibetan Plateau by crossing the Himalayas

Lüthi, Z. L.; Škerlak, B.; Kim, S.-W.; Lauer, A.; Mues, A.; Rupakheti, M.; Kang, S.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-6007-2015

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01 Jun 2015

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| 01 Jun 2015

Atmospheric brown clouds reach the Tibetan Plateau by crossing the Himalayas

Z. L. Lüthi, B. Škerlak, S.-W. Kim, A. Lauer, A. Mues, M. Rupakheti, and S. Kang

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RC C9811: 'Comments', Anonymous Referee #3, 04 Dec 2014
- AC C11238: 'Author Reply', Zoe Lucia Luethi, 15 Jan 2015
RC C9914: 'RC', Anonymous Referee #2, 08 Dec 2014
- AC C11235: 'Author Reply', Zoe Lucia Luethi, 15 Jan 2015
EC C11567: 'Review of “Atmospheric brown clouds reach the Tibetan Plateau by crossing the Himalayas” by Luthi et al. Referee #1', Yafang Cheng, 26 Jan 2015
- AC C12064: 'Author Reply', Bojan Škerlak, 10 Feb 2015

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AR by Zoe Lucia Luethi on behalf of the Authors (16 Jan 2015)

ED: Reconsider after minor revisions (Editor review) (07 Mar 2015) by Yafang Cheng

AR by Bojan Škerlak on behalf of the Authors (09 Mar 2015) Author's response

ED: Publish as is (12 Apr 2015) by Yafang Cheng

AR by Bojan Škerlak on behalf of the Authors (12 Apr 2015)

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The Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau region (HTP) is regularly exposed to polluted air masses that might influence glaciers as well as climate on regional to global scales. We found that atmospheric brown clouds from South Asia reach the HTP by crossing the Himalayas not only through the major north--south river valleys but rather over large areas by being lifted and advected at mid-troposheric levels. The transport is enabled by a combination of synoptic and local meteorological settings.