Downwelling surface solar irradiance in the tropical Atlantic Ocean: a comparison of re-analyses and satellite-derived data sets to PIRATA measurements

Trolliet, Mélodie; Walawender, Jakub P.; Bourlès, Bernard; Boilley, Alexandre; Trentmann, Jörg; Blanc, Philippe; Lefèvre, Mireille; Wald, Lucien

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/os-14-1021-2018

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https://doi.org/10.5194/os-14-1021-2018

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https://doi.org/10.5194/os-14-1021-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 5

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12 Sep 2018

Research article |

| 12 Sep 2018

Downwelling surface solar irradiance in the tropical Atlantic Ocean: a comparison of re-analyses and satellite-derived data sets to PIRATA measurements

Mélodie Trolliet, Jakub P. Walawender, Bernard Bourlès, Alexandre Boilley, Jörg Trentmann, Philippe Blanc, Mireille Lefèvre, and Lucien Wald

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RC1: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 17 Jan 2018
- AC2: 'Answer to anonymous Referee #1', Mélodie Trolliet, 06 Apr 2018
- AC3: 'New version of the article', Mélodie Trolliet, 06 Apr 2018
- AC4: 'Typos-corrected version of AC1', Mélodie Trolliet, 09 Apr 2018
RC2: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #2, 15 Feb 2018
- AC1: 'Answer to anonymous Referee #2', Mélodie Trolliet, 22 Mar 2018
- AC3: 'New version of the article', Mélodie Trolliet, 06 Apr 2018
- AC5: 'Typos-corrected version of AC1', Mélodie Trolliet, 09 Apr 2018

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

AR by Mélodie Trolliet on behalf of the Authors (09 Apr 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (01 May 2018) by Simon Josey

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (15 May 2018)

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (16 May 2018)

Suggestions for revision or reasons for rejection

Second review of "Estimating downwelling solar irradiance at the surface of the tropical Atlantic Ocean: A comparison of PIRATA measurements against several re-analyses and satellite-derived data sets" by Trolliet et al.

The authors have addressed the reviewers' comments and suggestions very well, especially regarding the restructuring of the manuscript's text and figures. The manuscript is now much easier to read and the results easier to interpret. I have some minor edits and suggestions before it can be published.

The title is rather long and could be shortened a little bit to "Downwelling surface solar irradiance in the tropical Atlantic Ocean: A comparison of PIRATA measurements to reanalyses and satellite-derived data sets"

p. 2, line 10: Probably better to replace "hardly known" with something like "not well known"

p. 2, line 27: Replace "effort is needed" with "efforts are needed"

p. 3, line 5: Replace "comprises" with "consists of" and "atlas" with "ATLAS"

p. 3, line 9: "Sensors are cleaned manually every trimester" I'm not sure what this means. My understanding is that they are replaced with clean sensors during every servicing cruise and that they are never cleaned while deployed on the buoys.

p. 4, line 6: Replace "wind currents" with "winds"

p. 4, lines 25-26: I don't think Foltz et al. (2013) recommended discarding the data from those buoys, just that it may be more difficult to attribute biases to dust because of possible tilt biases. Maybe best to delete this statement.

I'm curious why KT is used for clearness index instead of CI. Is KT a commonly used abbreviation? Same thing for using E for DSIS.

Figure 1: You could plot annual mean DSIS from one of the satellite products as the background instead of solid blue. That would help to visualize the different regimes the buoys are in.

p. 8, line 6: Change "on" to "to"

p. 15, line 24: "Sara" Do you mean "SARAH-2"?

I found it a little strange to have the discussion of daily averaged results after the discussion of monthly mean climatologies. It's a minor thing, but it might make more sense to go from hourly means to daily means to monthly means.

p. 26, lines 25-27: This sentence is very confusing.

p. 28, line 7: Change "bias" to "biases"

p. 29, line 29: Change "than" to "as"

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ED: Reconsider after major revisions (25 May 2018) by Simon Josey

AR by Lorena Grabowski on behalf of the Authors (14 Jun 2018) Author's response

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (04 Jul 2018) by Simon Josey

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (12 Jul 2018)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (17 Aug 2018) by Simon Josey