“…A critical quantity needed to infer the global production is the mean number of moles of NO x produced per lightning flash. Recent estimates for this quantity vary by an order of magnitude with values between 50 and 700 mol per flash (Allen et al., 2019; Bucsela et al., 2019; Davis et al., 2019; Lapierre et al., 2020; Marais et al., 2018; Pickering et al., 2016; Pollack et al., 2016; Zhang et al., 2020). Of course, Lightning NO x production efficiency (LNO x PE) may also vary with the flash type (cloud‐to‐ground versus intracloud) and altitude adding additional uncertainty to the mix (Cummings et al., 2013; DeCaria et al., 2005; Fehr et al., 2004; Fuchs & Rutledge, 2018; Koshak et al., 2014; Mecikalski & Carey, 2018; Ott et al, 2010, 2007; Price et al., 1997).…”