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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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Stark, H., Brown, S., Wong, K. et al. City lights and urban air. Nature Geosci 4, 730–731 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1300

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