Airborne bacteria viability and air quality: a protocol to quantitatively investigate the possible correlation by an atmospheric simulation chamber

Vernocchi, Virginia; Abd El, Elena; Brunoldi, Marco; Danelli, Silvia Giulia; Gatta, Elena; Isolabella, Tommaso; Mazzei, Federico; Parodi, Franco; Prati, Paolo; Massabò, Dario

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-5479-2023

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-5479-2023

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-5479-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 22

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14 Nov 2023

Research article |

| 14 Nov 2023

Airborne bacteria viability and air quality: a protocol to quantitatively investigate the possible correlation by an atmospheric simulation chamber

Virginia Vernocchi, Elena Abd El, Marco Brunoldi, Silvia Giulia Danelli, Elena Gatta, Tommaso Isolabella, Federico Mazzei, Franco Parodi, Paolo Prati, and Dario Massabò

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RC1:
'Comment on egusphere-2023-1580', Anonymous Referee #1, 24 Aug 2023

The paper presents an update to a relevant infrastructure for aerobiology, namely the ChAMBRe atmospheric simulation chamber. The paper presents also a protocol alongside baseline experiments to investigate the functioning of the chamber itself as well as the interaction between airborne microorganisms and specific stressors such as atmospheric pollutants and solar radiation. The aim of ChAMBRe is reaching an in-depth understanding of the interactions between microorganisms and atmosphere in the context of their airborne transport in order to better develop chemical transport models. The reviewer thinks that these issues are quite important and therefore that papers like this one should be published. However, the reviewer finds a number of issues in the presentation of the instrumentation, the experiments and the usage of references that do not allow to recommend immediate publication. Specific comments are given in the attached pdf.

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-1580-RC1
- AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Federico Mazzei, 13 Sep 2023
  
  Dear Referee
  On behalf of all the authors I thank you for reviewing the manuscript. Your suggestions and comments will lead to a significant improvement in the quality of the manuscript.
  Attached, you will find the point-to-point responses to your comments.
  Best regards
  
  Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-1580-AC1
RC2:
'Comment on egusphere-2023-1580', Pierre Amato, 24 Aug 2023

Comments on “Airborne bacteria viability and air quality: a protocol to quantitatively investigate the possible correlation by an atmospheric simulation chamber” by V. Vernocchi et al.
See file attached.

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-1580-RC2
- AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Federico Mazzei, 13 Sep 2023
  
  Dear Dr. Amato
  On behalf of all the authors I thank you for reviewing the manuscript. Your suggestions and comments will lead to a significant improvement in the quality of the manuscript.
  Attached, you will find the point-to-point responses to your comments.
  Best regards
  
  Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-1580-AC2

Peer review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision | EF: Editorial file upload

AR by Federico Mazzei on behalf of the Authors (14 Sep 2023) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (28 Sep 2023) by Daniela Famulari

AR by Federico Mazzei on behalf of the Authors (02 Oct 2023) Manuscript

Short summary

Bioaerosol are airborne particles or droplets that contain living organisms or biological materials, such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, pollen, or other organic matter. The study of the relationship between bioaerosol viability and air quality or meteorological conditions is an open field, and running experiments of the bioareosol viability in an atmospheric simulation chamber gives the possibility to set up well-defined conditions to evaluate the interaction between bioaerosol and pollutants.