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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-2026-6211</article-id>
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<article-title>Photolysis of iron-organic complexes regulates the HONO production from nitrate/organic acid/Fe(Ⅲ) mixtures: Roles of organic species, bulk acidity, and dissolved oxygen</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Li</surname>
<given-names>Qiong</given-names>
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<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>Zhou</surname>
<given-names>Min</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>2</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>Liu</surname>
<given-names>Yu</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>Chen</surname>
<given-names>Shengtian</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Wu</surname>
<given-names>Xiaoyin</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Ma</surname>
<given-names>Shuaishuai</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0009-0003-2190-8579</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>Fu</surname>
<given-names>Hongbo</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<sup>4</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Shanghai Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Particle Pollution and Prevention, Department of Environmental Science &amp;  Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>College of Chemical and Material Engineering, Quzhou University, Quzhou 324000, China</addr-line>
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<label>3</label>
<addr-line>College of Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, China</addr-line>
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<label>4</label>
<addr-line>IRDR International Center of Excellence on Risk Interconnectivity and Governance on Weather/Climate Extremes Impact and Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>13</day>
<month>10</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>2026</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>19</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Qiong Li et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<p>Despite extensive efforts to identify missing daytime HONO formation pathways, substantial discrepancies between observed and modeled HONO source strengths persist, highlighting the need to better constrain the environmental factors governing atmospheric HONO production. Here, we investigated Fe(Ⅲ)/Fe(Ⅱ) redox cycling and nitrate-to-N(Ⅲ) conversion in NaNO&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt;/organic acid/Fe(Ⅲ) mixtures, with emphasis on organic acid species, bulk-phase acidity, and dissolved oxygen availability. At pH 3.0, Fe(Ⅲ) increased HONO production rates (&lt;em&gt;P&lt;/em&gt;&lt;sub&gt;HONO&lt;/sub&gt;) by 41.3 %, 126.2 %, and 78.2 % relative to the corresponding binary NaNO&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt;/succinic acid, NaNO&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt;/tartaric acid, and NaNO&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt;/citric acid systems, respectively, through Fe(Ⅱ) formation from Fe(Ⅲ)-carboxylate photolysis. In contrast, &lt;em&gt;P&lt;/em&gt;&lt;sub&gt;HONO&lt;/sub&gt; decreased in the NaNO&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt;/oxalic acid/Fe(Ⅲ) and NaNO&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt;/malonic acid/Fe(Ⅲ) systems due to superoxide radical formation and available H&lt;sup&gt;+&lt;/sup&gt; consumption. At pH 1.6, &lt;em&gt;P&lt;/em&gt;&lt;sub&gt;HONO&lt;/sub&gt; increased by approximately 1 order of magnitude in the NaNO&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt;/oxalic acid/Fe(Ⅲ) system but decreased by 88.4 % and 87.9 % in the NaNO&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt;/malonic acid/Fe(Ⅲ) and NaNO&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt;/succinic acid/Fe(Ⅲ) systems, respectively. Variations in dissolved oxygen availability further demonstrated that superoxide radical formation suppressed Fe(Ⅱ) accumulation, thereby modulating nitrate reduction and HONO production. These findings reveal that organic structure, bulk acidity, and dissolved oxygen jointly regulate Fe(Ⅲ)/Fe(Ⅱ) redox cycling and reactive nitrogen formation in multicomponent photochemical systems, providing a mechanistic basis for improving the representation of atmospheric HONO sources.</p>
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<funding-source>National Natural Science Foundation of China</funding-source>
<award-id>22376029</award-id>
<award-id>22176038</award-id>
<award-id>42305109</award-id>
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<funding-source>Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province</funding-source>
<award-id>LMS25D050001</award-id>
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