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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">EGUsphere</journal-id>
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<journal-title>EGUsphere</journal-title>
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<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/egusphere-2025-725</article-id>
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<article-title>Ammonia emissions and depositions over the contiguous United States derived from IASI and CrIS using the directional derivative approach</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Li</surname>
<given-names>Zitong</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Sun</surname>
<given-names>Kang</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9930-7509</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
</xref>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff4">
<sup>4</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Guan</surname>
<given-names>Kaiyu</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3499-6382</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
</xref>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff5">
<sup>5</sup>
</xref>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff6">
<sup>6</sup>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Wang</surname>
<given-names>Sheng</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3385-3109</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Peng</surname>
<given-names>Bin</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff5">
<sup>5</sup>
</xref>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff7">
<sup>7</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Clarisse</surname>
<given-names>Lieven</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8805-2141</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff8">
<sup>8</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Van Damme</surname>
<given-names>Martin</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1752-0558</ext-link>
</name>
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<sup>8</sup>
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<sup>9</sup>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Coheur</surname>
<given-names>Pierre-François</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff9">
<sup>9</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Cady-Pereira</surname>
<given-names>Karen</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff10">
<sup>10</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Shephard</surname>
<given-names>Mark W.</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>11</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Zondlo</surname>
<given-names>Mark</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>12</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Moore</surname>
<given-names>Daniel</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff12">
<sup>12</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Agroecosystem Sustainability Center, Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment,  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff2">
<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Department of Nature Resources and Environmental Sciences, College of Agricultural,  Consumer and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL,  USA</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff3">
<label>3</label>
<addr-line>Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, University at Buffalo, Buffalo,    NY, USA</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff4">
<label>4</label>
<addr-line>Research and Education in Energy, Environment and Water Institute, University at Buffalo,  Buffalo, NY, USA</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff5">
<label>5</label>
<addr-line>National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,  Urbana, IL, USA</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff6">
<label>6</label>
<addr-line>Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff7">
<label>7</label>
<addr-line>Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff8">
<label>8</label>
<addr-line>Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), BLU-ULB research Center, Spectroscopy, Quantum  Chemistry and Atmospheric Remote Sensing (SQUARES), Brussels, Belgium</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff9">
<label>9</label>
<addr-line>Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB), Brussels, Belgium</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff10">
<label>10</label>
<addr-line>Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Lexington, MA, USA</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff11">
<label>11</label>
<addr-line>Environment and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff12">
<label>12</label>
<addr-line>Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ,  USA</addr-line>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>05</day>
<month>03</month>
<year>2025</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>2025</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>31</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2025 Zitong Li et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2025</copyright-year>
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<p>Atmosphere ammonia (NH&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt;), primarily emitted from agriculture, poses significant threats to ecosystems, climate, and human health through nitrogen deposition and secondary aerosol formation. NH&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt; flux estimates remain highly uncertain due to limited direct observations and complex emission&amp;ndash;deposition processes. Here, we estimated NH&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt; fluxes over the contiguous United States using satellite observations from the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI, 2008&amp;ndash;2022) and Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS, 2012&amp;ndash;2022). By applying a directional derivative approach, we minimized the impact of offsets in satellite-derived vertical column densities. Our results highlight major agricultural emission hotspots, including the San Joaquin Valley in California, the Snake River Valley in Idaho, the Texas panhandle, the Great Plains, Southeastern Pennsylvania, and Eastern North Carolina. NH&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt; removal was predominantly driven by deposition near sources rather than chemical transformation, with strong sinks in vegetation-dense regions such as forests, grasslands, shrublands, and wetlands. Seasonal flux variations showed peaks in warm months and lower values in winter, driven by temperature-dependent volatilization from livestock production and fertilizer application. Satellite-based estimates aligned well with bottom-up inventories, effectively capturing spatial and seasonal patterns while revealing additional insights into key flux hotspots and peak seasons. CrIS consistently reported higher fluxes than IASI, especially in spring, reflecting differences in their overpass times. Combining IASI (morning overpass) and CrIS (midday overpass) observations enables a better understanding of diurnal NH&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt; flux dynamics. These findings provide critical insights into NH&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt; spatiotemporal variabilities, complementing inventory-based approaches and informing nitrogen management and environmental policy, particularly in regions with limited ground-based monitoring.</p>
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