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Relaxation term<br />

Due to these problems in the assimilation process, a “relaxation term” was added to the<br />

model. Aerosol amounts are relaxed to 25 micrograms per kilogram over land and 12.5<br />

micrograms per kilogram over sea with a timescale of 2 days.<br />

The assumption that the aerosol concentrations over most land points are identical was<br />

possibly reasonable in the U.K Mesoscale model. However, this assumption is not appropriate<br />

in the NAE. The mass mixing ratio over Greenland or Iceland is clearly not going to be<br />

identical to the aerosol mass mixing ratio over continental Europe. It would be better to relax<br />

to a climatology field rather than fixed land/sea values or scrap the relaxation completely if<br />

we could reduce our data assimilation problems.<br />

Murk sources<br />

Figure 9: Aerosol emissions at 20.0 metres and 320 metres over the U.K.<br />

Figure 10: Aerosol emissions at 20.0 metres over Europe<br />

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