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of model and observationally based results should be useful for others planning to do similar model evaluation studies. Parts of the model description is vague, however, which makes it difficult for the reader to find necessary information about the aerosol treatment without actually reading many of the underlying papers for the model. The treatment of sea salt, in particular, is poorly described, and the potential impact of this component (on coastal and island sites) on the results has mainly been omitted, except (for some sites) in Figure 7.