Interactive comment on “The concentration, source apportionment and deposition flux of atmospheric particulate inorganic nitrogen during dust events” by Jianhua Qi et al

General Comments: The manuscript titled ‘The concentration, source apportionment and deposition flux of atmospheric particulate inorganic nitrogen during dust events’ written by Jianhua Qi presented the dust impacts on particulate inorganic nitrogen by analyzing the aerosol samples collected at Qingdao, China. The authors divided dust pattern into three parts, and investigated the dry deposition flux. To estimate the source, PMF receptor model was also used. Based on the above approaches, the authors tried to answer the questions of ‘dust event always increase the atmospheric input of nitrogen to the ocean?’. The topic is interested ones because the impact of dust as atmospheric input on ocean ecosystem has been still unclarified. However,