Interactive comment on “Physical and chemical properties of deposited airborne particulates over the Arabian Red Sea coastal plain” by
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The paper presents and analyzes the mineralogical, physical and chemical composition of dust deposited samples at six sites on the KAUST campus. KAUST is located on the Red sea coastal plain of Saudi Arabia. Monthly samples were collected between December 2014 and December 2015. The monthly deposition trends were compared to visibility and sun photometric measurements and to previous mineralogical analysis of soil samples from nearby dust sources. The paper concludes that dust deposits along the Red Sea coast are a mixture of dust emissions from local soils and soils imported from distal sources.
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