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The following sentence should be added to the Acknowledgements: The authors thank Nobuo Sugimoto in the National Institute of Environmental Studies for providing us with LIDAR data and itstechnical information.

The first sentence in the ‘Asian dust data’ section should read: We obtained daily Asian dust concentrations by using polarisation LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) system measurements at the Matsue site (figure 1) during the study period from National Institute of Environmental Studies.