Interactive comment on “Monitoring and tracking the trans-Pacific transport of aerosols using multi-satellite aerosol optical depth retrievals” by A. R. Naeger et al
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The paper “Monitoring and tracking the trans-Pacific transport of aerosols using multisatellite aerosol optical depth retrievals” by Naeger et al. describes a new merged AOD product, which integrates different existing and new Level 2 products from LEO and GEO satellite instruments. This merged AOD product is applied to monitor and track a trans-Pacific aerosol outbreak event from Asia to the US. The topic of the paper fits well with the aims and scopes of AMT. Nevertheless, I have found this paper far too technical. The scientific significance of the manuscript, in the present form, is not clear to me. The individual AOD products are merely put together on a common grid. The description of the methodology, both for the derivation of the new AOD observations from GEO instruments (GOES-15 and MTSAT-2) and how this is merged with the exist-
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Interactive comment on “Monitoring and tracking the trans-Pacific transport of aerosols using multi-satellite aerosol optical depth retrievals” by A. R. Naeger et al
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