Hydroxy fatty acids in fresh snow samples from northern Japan: long-range atmospheric transport of Gram-negative bacteria by Asian winter monsoon

Tyagi, P.; Yamamoto, S.; Kawamura, K.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-7071-2015

Articles | Volume 12, issue 23

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-7071-2015

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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-7071-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 23

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08 Dec 2015

Research article |

| 08 Dec 2015

Hydroxy fatty acids in fresh snow samples from northern Japan: long-range atmospheric transport of Gram-negative bacteria by Asian winter monsoon

P. Tyagi, S. Yamamoto, and K. Kawamura

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RC C5870: 'Review of Tyagi et al bg-2015-387', Anonymous Referee #1, 29 Sep 2015
- AC C7736: 'Responses to the comments of Referee#1', Poonam Tyagi, 17 Nov 2015
SC C6629: 'Hydroxy fatty acids........Asian winter monsoon', Shown Chi, 17 Oct 2015
- AC C7740: 'Response to short comment', Poonam Tyagi, 17 Nov 2015
RC C7584: 'Comments on "Hydroxy fatty acids in fresh snow samples from Northern Japan: long-range atmospheric transport of Gram-negative bacteria by Asian winter monsoon"', Anonymous Referee #2, 11 Nov 2015
- AC C7738: 'Responses to the comments of Referee#2', Poonam Tyagi, 17 Nov 2015

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (26 Nov 2015) by Jack Middelburg

AR by Poonam Tyagi on behalf of the Authors (27 Nov 2015) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (27 Nov 2015) by Jack Middelburg

AR by Poonam Tyagi on behalf of the Authors (30 Nov 2015) Author's response Manuscript

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Our manuscript represents the first field-based data set on the abundances of hydroxy fatty acids (FAs) in fresh snow and its filtering capacity to reduce hydroxy FA burden on the atmosphere. •Hydroxy fatty acids (FAs) in snow indicate a contribution from soil microbes and higher plants. •Air mass back trajectories reveal their transport from Russia, Siberia and China. We conducted the present study to better understand the impact of aeolian transport on bacteria & their filtering by snow.