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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-2026-4773</article-id>
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<article-title>Improving bottom-up ammonia emission estimations in Guangdong combining ammonia measurements from a ground-based network and FY-4B satellite and GCHP model</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Meng</surname>
<given-names>Lingze</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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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Lu</surname>
<given-names>Ni</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Guo</surname>
<given-names>Yixin</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Lan</surname>
<given-names>Ziru</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>Zeng</surname>
<given-names>Zhao-Cheng</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0008-6508</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>Chen</surname>
<given-names>Zichong</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff4">
<sup>4</sup>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Zhao</surname>
<given-names>Yuanhong</given-names>
</name>
<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>Zhong</surname>
<given-names>Zhuangmin</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
</xref>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff7">
<sup>7</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Zhang</surname>
<given-names>Tao</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0861-6822</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
</xref>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff7">
<sup>7</sup>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Chen</surname>
<given-names>Duohong</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</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>Liu</surname>
<given-names>Xuejun</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff8">
<sup>8</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Zhang</surname>
<given-names>Lin</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>Zheng</surname>
<given-names>Junyu</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff10">
<sup>10</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences Thrust, Function Hub, Hong Kong University of Science &amp; Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou 511442, China</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff2">
<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Key Laboratory of Regional Air Quality Monitoring, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Guangzhou 510060, China</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff3">
<label>3</label>
<addr-line>School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff4">
<label>4</label>
<addr-line>Thrust of Carbon Neutrality and Climate Change, Society Hub, Hong Kong University of Science &amp; Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou 511442, China</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff5">
<label>5</label>
<addr-line>State Key Laboratory of Physical Oceanography, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff6">
<label>6</label>
<addr-line>College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266100, China</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff7">
<label>7</label>
<addr-line>Guangdong Ecological and Environmental Monitoring Center, Guangzhou 510060, China</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff8">
<label>8</label>
<addr-line>State Key Laboratory of Nutrient Use and Management, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, National Academy of Agriculture Green Development, National Observation and Research Station of Agriculture Green Development (Quzhou, Hebei), China  Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff9">
<label>9</label>
<addr-line>Laboratory for Climate and Ocean-Atmosphere Studies, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People&apos;s Republic of China</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff10">
<label>10</label>
<addr-line>Sustainable Energy and Environment Thrust, Function Hub, Hong Kong University of Science &amp; Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou 511442, China</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>08</day>
<month>09</month>
<year>2026</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>2026</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>28</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Lingze Meng et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<abstract>
<p>Accurate ammonia (NH&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt;) emission inventories are critical for PM&lt;sub&gt;2.5&lt;/sub&gt; mitigation, yet bottom-up estimates remain uncertain, particularly for sector-resolved estimates in humid subtropical regions such as Guangdong, where urban-industrial emissions in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) coexist with dispersed agricultural sources in surrounding non-PRD areas. Here we integrate a ground-based NH&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt; network, Fengyun-4B (FY-4B) geostationary NH&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt; retrievals, a localized 3 km &amp;times; 3 km prior inventory, and stretched-grid GEOS-Chem High Performance (GCHP) simulations at 0.2&amp;deg; &amp;times; 0.2&amp;deg; resolution to inversely constrain monthly agricultural and non-agricultural NH&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt; emissions in the PRD and non-PRD Guangdong in 2023. The posterior simulation improved agreement with observations, reducing NRMSE from 55.3 % to 48.4 % and changing NMB from &amp;minus;9.0 % to 4.6 %, with further support from independent NH&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt;, NH&lt;sub&gt;4&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;+&lt;/sup&gt;, and deposition measurements. Provincial anthropogenic NH&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt; emissions decreased from 477.6 to 441.5 kt yr&lt;sup&gt;&amp;minus;1&lt;/sup&gt;: agricultural emissions declined from 437.2 to 362.5 kt yr&lt;sup&gt;&amp;minus;1&lt;/sup&gt;, mainly through warm-season reductions in non-PRD areas, whereas non-agricultural emissions increased from 40.4 to 79.0 kt yr&lt;sup&gt;&amp;minus;1&lt;/sup&gt;, especially during the cool season. Hypothetically removing agricultural (non-agricultural) NH&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt; emissions in Guangdong provided provincial PM&lt;sub&gt;2.5&lt;/sub&gt; reductions of 3.7 &amp;plusmn; 1.5 (0.7 &amp;plusmn; 0.4) &amp;mu;g m&lt;sup&gt;&amp;minus;3&lt;/sup&gt; and avoided premature deaths of 3251 (1064), highlighting the need to combine dispersed agricultural source controls and targeted non-agricultural source controls over populated PRD.</p>
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<funding-source>National Natural Science Foundation of China</funding-source>
<award-id>42505174</award-id>
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