Explicit and Observation-based Aerosol Treatment in Tropospheric NO2 Retrieval over China from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument

Mengyao Liu1, Jintai Lin2, Folkert Boersma3,4, Gaia Pinardi5, Yang Wang6, Julien Chimot7, Thomas Wagner6, Pinhua Xie8,9, Henk Eskes3, Michel Van Roozendael5 and Francois Hendrick10, (1)Peking University, Beijing, China, (2)Peking University, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, School of Physics, Beijing, China, (3)Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, Netherlands, (4)Wageningen University, Meteorology and Air Quality, Wageningen, Netherlands, (5)Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium, (6)Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany, (7)EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany, (8)Key laboratory of Environmental Optics and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Hefei, China, (9)University of Science and Technology of China, School of Environmental Science and Optoelectronic Technology, Hefei, China, (10)Belgisch Instituut voor Ruimte-Aeronomie, Brussel, Belgium