Cost-effective off-grid automatic precipitation samplers for pollutant and biogeochemical atmospheric deposition

Colussi, Alessia A.; Persaud, Daniel; Lao, Melodie; Place, Bryan K.; Hems, Rachel F.; Ziegler, Susan E.; Edwards, Kate A.; Young, Cora J.; VandenBoer, Trevor C.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-3697-2024

Articles | Volume 17, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-3697-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-3697-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 12

Research article

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20 Jun 2024

Research article |

| 20 Jun 2024

Cost-effective off-grid automatic precipitation samplers for pollutant and biogeochemical atmospheric deposition

Alessia A. Colussi, Daniel Persaud, Melodie Lao, Bryan K. Place, Rachel F. Hems, Susan E. Ziegler, Kate A. Edwards, Cora J. Young, and Trevor C. VandenBoer

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Status: closed

RC1:
'Comment on amt-2023-231', Anonymous Referee #1, 13 Dec 2023

The comment was uploaded in the form of a supplement: https://amt.copernicus.org/preprints/amt-2023-231/amt-2023-231-RC1-supplement.pdf

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2023-231-RC1
- AC1: 'Reply on EC1', Trevor VandenBoer, 21 Mar 2024
  
  Please see our detailed response to the combined comments of the Editor and both Reviewers in the attached documentation. Following our detailed responses, we also provide a copy of the manuscript and supporting information with the implemented changes tracked, for rapid cross-referencing. We will separately upload a clean version of the revised manuscript, as per the journal guidelines, in order to complete peer-review.
  
  Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2023-231-AC1
RC2:
'Comment on amt-2023-231', Anonymous Referee #2, 21 Dec 2023

The comment was uploaded in the form of a supplement: https://amt.copernicus.org/preprints/amt-2023-231/amt-2023-231-RC2-supplement.pdf

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2023-231-RC2
- AC1: 'Reply on EC1', Trevor VandenBoer, 21 Mar 2024
  
  Please see our detailed response to the combined comments of the Editor and both Reviewers in the attached documentation. Following our detailed responses, we also provide a copy of the manuscript and supporting information with the implemented changes tracked, for rapid cross-referencing. We will separately upload a clean version of the revised manuscript, as per the journal guidelines, in order to complete peer-review.
  
  Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2023-231-AC1
EC1:
'Handling editor's comments on amt-2023-231', Mingjin Tang, 25 Dec 2023

Dear colleagues,
This manuscript has been reviewed by two referees. They believe that the instrument you developed is of great interest and that the work is well conducted. Neverthless, they both feel that the current manuscript contained a lot of redundant materials and should be substantially shortened. I agree with them very much; in addition, the structure of this manuscript should be further improved, as also pointed out by the two referees.
As a result, in addition to the revised manuscript and point-to-point reply, could you please also provide a summary of major changes you make in the revision (in order to make it easier for the referees and also the handling editor)? Thank you very much.
Sincerely,
Mingjin Tang
AMT associate editor

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2023-231-EC1
- AC1: 'Reply on EC1', Trevor VandenBoer, 21 Mar 2024
  
  Please see our detailed response to the combined comments of the Editor and both Reviewers in the attached documentation. Following our detailed responses, we also provide a copy of the manuscript and supporting information with the implemented changes tracked, for rapid cross-referencing. We will separately upload a clean version of the revised manuscript, as per the journal guidelines, in order to complete peer-review.
  
  Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2023-231-AC1

Peer review completion

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

AR by Trevor VandenBoer on behalf of the Authors (21 Mar 2024) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (22 Mar 2024) by Mingjin Tang

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (02 Apr 2024)

ED: Publish as is (09 Apr 2024) by Mingjin Tang

AR by Trevor VandenBoer on behalf of the Authors (20 Apr 2024) Manuscript

Short summary

A new modular and affordable instrument was developed to automatically collect wet deposition continuously with an off-grid solar top-up power package. Monthly collections were performed across the Newfoundland and Labrador Boreal Ecosystem Latitudinal Transect of experimental forest sites from 2015 to 2016. The proof-of-concept systems were validated with baseline measurements of pH and conductivity and then applied to dissolved organic carbon as an analyte of emerging biogeochemical interest.