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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-2291-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-2291-2025
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21 Feb 2025
Research article |  | 21 Feb 2025

Identifying missing sources and reducing NOx emissions uncertainty over China using daily satellite data and a mass-conserving method

Lingxiao Lu, Jason Blake Cohen, Kai Qin, Xiaolu Li, and Qin He

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This study applies an approach that assimilates NO2 vertical column densities from TROPOMI in a mass-conserving manner and inverts daily NOx emissions, presented over rapidly changing regions in China. Source attribution is quantified by the local thermodynamics of the combustion temperature (NOx/NO2). Emission results identify sources which do not exist in the a priori datasets, especially medium industrial sources located next to the Yangtze River.
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