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Reactive halogen cycling in the marine environment

Model Output
Model Output

The figures above are from a simple test-case, representing a relatively clean marine airmass being mixed with the oxidation products of anthropogenic gaseous pollutants before returning to a clean marine environment. It has been run using our aerosol box-model, MANIC, and uses PD-FiTE to calculate the thermodynamic properties of the aerosol phase. The figures show the changes in aerosol composition (given as Molality, or Moles of solute per litre of water), and changes in the differences between the atmospheric partial pressures and the vapour pressures over the aerosol phase which occur through time and also across the aerosol size-distribution.