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Articles | Volume 16, issue 8
Articles | Volume 16, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-5283-2016
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Articles | Volume 16, issue 8
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28 Apr 2016
Research article |  | 28 Apr 2016

NOx lifetimes and emissions of cities and power plants in polluted background estimated by satellite observations

Fei Liu, Steffen Beirle, Qiang Zhang, Steffen Dörner, Kebin He, and Thomas Wagner

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We present a new method to quantify NOx emissions and corresponding atmospheric lifetimes from OMI NO2 observations together with ECMWF wind fields without further model input for sources located in polluted background. The derived NOx emissions show generally good agreement with bottom-up inventories for power plants and cities. Global inventory significantly underestimated NOx emissions in Chinese cities, most likely due to uncertainties associated with downscaling approaches.
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