Estimates of lightning NOx production based on high-resolution OMI NO2 retrievals over the continental US

Zhang, Xin; Yin, Yan; van der A, Ronald; Lapierre, Jeff L.; Chen, Qian; Kuang, Xiang; Yan, Shuqi; Chen, Jinghua; He, Chuan; Shi, Rulin

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-1709-2020

Articles | Volume 13, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-1709-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-1709-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 4

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07 Apr 2020

Research article |

| 07 Apr 2020

Estimates of lightning NO_x production based on high-resolution OMI NO₂ retrievals over the continental US

Xin Zhang, Yan Yin, Ronald van der A, Jeff L. Lapierre, Qian Chen, Xiang Kuang, Shuqi Yan, Jinghua Chen, Chuan He, and Rulin Shi

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RC1: 'Zhang et al. Estimates of LNOx Production', Anonymous Referee #1, 04 Dec 2019
- AC1: 'Author's response to comments', Xin Zhang, 07 Feb 2020
RC2: 'Review of X. Zhang et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 02 Jan 2020
- AC1: 'Author's response to comments', Xin Zhang, 07 Feb 2020
RC3: 'review', Anonymous Referee #3, 22 Jan 2020
- AC1: 'Author's response to comments', Xin Zhang, 07 Feb 2020

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AR by Xin Zhang on behalf of the Authors (07 Feb 2020) Author's response Manuscript

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RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (12 Feb 2020)

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (17 Feb 2020)

RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (28 Feb 2020)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (28 Feb 2020) by Steffen Beirle

AR by Xin Zhang on behalf of the Authors (08 Mar 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (11 Mar 2020) by Steffen Beirle

AR by Xin Zhang on behalf of the Authors (11 Mar 2020)

Short summary

Lightning NO_x has a strong impact on ozone and the hydroxyl radical production. However, the production efficiency of lightning NO_x is still quite uncertain. This work develops the algorithm of estimating lightning NO_x for both clean and polluted regions and evaluates the sensitivity of estimates to the model setting of lightning NO. Results reveal that our method reduces the sensitivity to the background NO₂ and includes much of the below-cloud LNO₂.