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Estimates of lightning NOx production from GOME satellite observations K. F. Boersma, H. J. Eskes, E. W. Meijer, and H. M. Kelder Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, The Netherlands Received: 17 February 2005 – Accepted: 4 April 2005 – Published: 13 May 2005 Correspondence to: K. F. Boersma ([email protected]) © 2005 Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.