Articles | Volume 19, issue 13
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-8863-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-8863-2019
Research article
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12 Jul 2019
Research article |  | 12 Jul 2019

Using satellite observations of tropospheric NO2 columns to infer long-term trends in US NOx emissions: the importance of accounting for the free tropospheric NO2 background

Rachel F. Silvern, Daniel J. Jacob, Loretta J. Mickley, Melissa P. Sulprizio, Katherine R. Travis, Eloise A. Marais, Ronald C. Cohen, Joshua L. Laughner, Sungyeon Choi, Joanna Joiner, and Lok N. Lamsal

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