Articles | Volume 18, issue 20
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-15017-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-15017-2018
Research article
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19 Oct 2018
Research article |  | 19 Oct 2018

Adjoint inversion of Chinese non-methane volatile organic compound emissions using space-based observations of formaldehyde and glyoxal

Hansen Cao, Tzung-May Fu, Lin Zhang, Daven K. Henze, Christopher Chan Miller, Christophe Lerot, Gonzalo González Abad, Isabelle De Smedt, Qiang Zhang, Michel van Roozendael, François Hendrick, Kelly Chance, Jie Li, Junyu Zheng, and Yuanhong Zhao

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AR by Tzung-May Fu on behalf of the Authors (10 Jul 2018)  Manuscript 
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (15 Jul 2018) by Chul Han Song
RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (06 Aug 2018)
RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (22 Aug 2018)
ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (02 Sep 2018) by Chul Han Song
AR by Tzung-May Fu on behalf of the Authors (10 Sep 2018)  Author's response   Manuscript 
ED: Publish as is (12 Sep 2018) by Chul Han Song
AR by Tzung-May Fu on behalf of the Authors (14 Sep 2018)  Author's response   Manuscript 
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Our top-down estimates for annual total Chinese NMVOC emissions was 30.7 to 49.5 Tg y−1, including 16.4 to 23.6 Tg y−1 from anthropogenic sources, 12.2 to 22.8 Tg y−1 from biogenic sources, and 2.08 to 3.13 Tg y−1 from biomass burning. Our four inversions consistently showed that the emissions of Chinese anthropogenic NMVOC precursors of glyoxal were larger than the a priori estimates. The glyoxal and formaldehyde constraints helped distinguish the NMVOC species from different sources.
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