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5. Conclusions
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Agricultural land management contributes most to the total modelled mineral
dust concentration followed by traffic and wind erosion.
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The uncertainties are generally large (>300%).
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Limited availability of observations hampers a thorough evaluation of the
results.
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The model overestimates the impact of ploughing emissions.
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It appears that with the present set up we can not explain the observed concen-
trations of mineral dust.
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