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City lights and urban air

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Figure 1: Light pollution in Los Angeles.

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We want to thank the NOAA Aircraft Operations Center for their support. Analyses and visualizations used in this study were produced with the Giovanni online data system, developed and maintained by the NASA GES DISC. We also acknowledge the AURA mission scientists and associated NASA personnel for the production of the data used in this research effort. E. Atlas provided VOC data that were used for initializing the one-dimensional model.

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    H. Stark, S. S. Brown, I. B. Pollack, T. B. Ryerson, W. P. Dube, N. L. Wagner & D. D. Parrish

  2. Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, 80309, Colorado, USA

    H. Stark, I. B. Pollack, W. P. Dube & N. L. Wagner

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  5. NOAA National Geophysical Data Center, Earth Observations Group, 325 Broadway, Boulder, 80305, Colorado, USA

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