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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-2026-2692</article-id>
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<article-title>Impacts of the heterogeneous ammonia uptake on air quality in the North China Plain</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Lu</surname>
<given-names>Yuxuan</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Wang</surname>
<given-names>Ruonan</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Zhang</surname>
<given-names>Ningning</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Wang</surname>
<given-names>Qiyuan</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Pan</surname>
<given-names>Yuepeng</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5547-0849</ext-link>
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<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Jiang</surname>
<given-names>Qian</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Tie</surname>
<given-names>Xuexi</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>State Key Laboratory of Loess Science, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710061, China</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics and Atmospheric Chemistry, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100029, China</addr-line>
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<label>3</label>
<addr-line>University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>06</day>
<month>07</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>2026</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>23</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Yuxuan Lu et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<p>Previous studies have revealed that the heterogeneous uptake of ammonia (NH&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt;) on secondary organic aerosols (SOA) profoundly influences the NH&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt; budget, nitrate aerosol chemistry, and the regional PM&lt;sub&gt;2.5&lt;/sub&gt; burden, also constituting an important source of nitrogen-containing organic compounds (NOCs). However, current regional modeling efforts are hindered by large uncertainties in uptake coefficients (&amp;gamma;) and a persistent lack of field-based observational constraints. In this study, we incorporate a first-order reactive NH&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt; uptake mechanism into the WRF-Chem model to evaluate its impacts on air quality and NOCs over the North China Plain (NCP) during November 2017, with a wide range of the uptake coefficient from 10&lt;sup&gt;-5&lt;/sup&gt; to 10&lt;sup&gt;-3&lt;/sup&gt;. When simulations are constrained with available observations in the NCP, we conclude that the uptake coefficient of 10&lt;sup&gt;-5 &lt;/sup&gt;is characterized as a conservative upper-bound estimate for this heterogeneous process. Sensitivity simulations with the uptake coefficient of 10&lt;sup&gt;-5&lt;/sup&gt; reveal that the uptake reaction decreases NH&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt; concentrations by 0.62 % and inorganic aerosol and PM&lt;sub&gt;2.5&lt;/sub&gt; concentrations by less than 0.06 %, but contributes 1.2 &amp;mu;g m&lt;sup&gt;-3&lt;/sup&gt; of NOCs in the NCP. This study suggests that the uptake reaction might be a vital path for NOCs formation, but its impact on air pollutants concentrations is insignificant.</p>
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<funding-source>Key Research and Development Projects of Shaanxi Province</funding-source>
<award-id>2024SF-ZDCYL-05-05</award-id>
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<funding-source>National Natural Science Foundation of China</funding-source>
<award-id>42307154</award-id>
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