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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-2026-3308</article-id>
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<article-title>Characterizing Lightning NO&lt;sub&gt;&lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sub&gt; Production in the Ebro Valley with MTG-LI and LMA Observations</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Pérez-Invernón</surname>
<given-names>Francisco J.</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2905-3854</ext-link>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Gordillo-Vázquez</surname>
<given-names>Francisco J.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>van der Velde</surname>
<given-names>Oscar</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1638-6628</ext-link>
</name>
<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>Montanyà</surname>
<given-names>Joan</given-names>
</name>
<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>López Trujillo</surname>
<given-names>Jesús Alberto</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8802-4271</ext-link>
</name>
<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>Pineda</surname>
<given-names>Nicolau</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2507-8424</ext-link>
</name>
<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>Loyola</surname>
<given-names>Diego</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8547-9350</ext-link>
</name>
<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>Seo</surname>
<given-names>Sora</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1889-4802</ext-link>
</name>
<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>Knote</surname>
<given-names>Christoph</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9105-9179</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff5">
<sup>5</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Fierro</surname>
<given-names>Alexandre O.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff6">
<sup>6</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Huntrieser</surname>
<given-names>Heidi</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8046-1859</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff7">
<sup>7</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA), CSIC, PO Box 3004, 18080 Granada, Spain</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Lightning Research Group, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Terrassa, Spain</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff3">
<label>3</label>
<addr-line>Meteorological Service of Catalonia</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff4">
<label>4</label>
<addr-line>Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Methodik der Fernerkundung, Wessling, Germany</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff5">
<label>5</label>
<addr-line>Chair of Model-Based Environmental Exposure Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff6">
<label>6</label>
<addr-line>Metocean Team, I&amp;E Engineering, BP Exploration and Operating Company, Ltd., Sunbury, UK</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff7">
<label>7</label>
<addr-line>Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>08</day>
<month>07</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>2026</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>35</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Francisco J. Pérez-Invernón et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<p>Lightning is one of the main sources of NO&lt;em&gt;ₓ&lt;/em&gt; in the Earth&amp;rsquo;s atmosphere, yet there is considerable variability in NO&lt;em&gt;ₓ&lt;/em&gt; production during thunderstorms. In this study, we combined optical lightning data from the Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) Lightning Imaging (LI) instrument, which provides information on the occurrence rate and physical characteristics of lightning flashes, measurements from an extended Lightning Mapping Array (LMA) consisting of 24 sensors, lightning measurements from the Lightning Location System (LLS) of the Meteorological Service of Catalonia (MSC), and TROPO-spheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) cloud and NO₂ research products to investigate lightning NO&lt;em&gt;ₓ&lt;/em&gt; emissions in the Ebro Valley (Spain). WRF-Chem simulations were used to calculate the necessary air mass factors and to subtract the NO&lt;em&gt;ₓ&lt;/em&gt; not produced by lightning from the TROPOMI measurements, allowing a more accurate estimation of lightning-induced NO&lt;em&gt;ₓ&lt;/em&gt;. We found positive relationships between lightning-produced NO&lt;em&gt;ₓ&lt;/em&gt; per flash and several lightning properties, including flash channel length, radiance, footprint, duration and the length of the optical continuous signal detected from space. These results highlight the importance of combining detailed lightning observations with atmospheric modeling to quantify NO&lt;em&gt;ₓ&lt;/em&gt; emissions from thunderstorms.</p>
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