Surface and subsurface characterisation of salt pans expressing polygonal patterns

Lasser, Jana; Nield, Joanna M.; Goehring, Lucas

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2881-2020

Articles | Volume 12, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2881-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2881-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 4

Data description paper

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14 Nov 2020

Data description paper |

| 14 Nov 2020

Surface and subsurface characterisation of salt pans expressing polygonal patterns

Jana Lasser, Joanna M. Nield, and Lucas Goehring

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Final revised paper (published on 14 Nov 2020)
Preprint (discussion started on 28 May 2020)

Interactive discussion

Status: closed

AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'comments to the data description manuscript on the two salt pans', Honghe Xu, 06 Jun 2020
AC1: 'Related data sets and research context', Jana Lasser, 13 Jun 2020
RC2: 'Reviewer Comments on “Surface and subsurface characterisation of salt pans expressing polygonal patterns”', Kevin Perry, 25 Aug 2020
- AC2: 'Reply to RC2', Jana Lasser, 01 Sep 2020
- AC3: 'Addendum to reply to RC2', Jana Lasser, 01 Sep 2020

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

AR by Jana Lasser on behalf of the Authors (09 Sep 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (21 Sep 2020) by Kirsten Elger

AR by Jana Lasser on behalf of the Authors (25 Sep 2020) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

The publication presents six data sets that describe the surface and subsurface characteristics of salt deserts in southern California. The data were collected during two field studies in 2016 and 2018 and are used to investigate the origins of the eye-catching hexagonal salt ridge patterns that emerge in such deserts. It is important to understand how these salt crusts grow since these deserts and their dynamic surface structure play a major role in the emission of dust into the atmosphere.