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Temporal evolution of the five dust quantities used to couple the ID radial dust evolution model employed with our MRI-driven turbulence model, for Model IV. These quantities are the representative grain size adust,rep (Eq. (16)) in panel a, the representative grain cross-section σdust,rep (Eq. (17)), the representative grain mass mdust,rep (Eq. (18)), the total dust density ρdust,tot (Eq. (8)) in panel d, and the total dust number density ndust,tot (Eq. (10)) in panel e. Instead of displaying σdust,rep and mdust,rep, we show the equivalent grain size corresponding to σdust,rep (panel b), and the equivalent grain size corresponding to mdust,rep (panel c). These equivalent grain sizes better indicate the dominant size when considering the grain cross-section or the grain mass, each of which is important for the MRI calculations (see Sect. 2.3). The panels particularly show the midplane radial profiles. We note that adust,rep and adust,m traces the smallest and largest sizes of the dust distribution, respectively, whereas adust,σ is the relevant size of the dust distribution involved in the ionization chemistry.

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