Articles | Volume 14, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-3277-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-3277-2014
Research article
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02 Apr 2014
Research article |  | 02 Apr 2014

Global lightning NOx production estimated by an assimilation of multiple satellite data sets

K. Miyazaki, H. J. Eskes, K. Sudo, and C. Zhang

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