Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

Unexpected response of nitrogen deposition to nitrogen oxide controls and implications for land carbon sink

  • Mingxu Liu,
  • Fang Shang,
  • Xingjie Lu,
  • Xin Huang,
  • Yu Song,
  • Bing Liu,
  • Qiang Zhang,
  • Xuejun Liu,
  • Junji Cao,
  • Tingting Xu,
  • Tiantian Wang,
  • Zhenying Xu,
  • Wen Xu,
  • Wenling Liao,
  • Ling Kang,
  • Xuhui Cai,
  • Hongsheng Zhang,
  • Yongjiu Dai,
  • Tong Zhu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30854-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Recent vigorous controls in anthropogenic nitrogen oxide emissions in China cannot result in proportionate decreases in regional atmospheric nitrogen deposition. Enhanced atmospheric oxidizing capacity offsets those reductions of precursor emissions.