“…Several studies have discussed in detail the impact of algorithmic differences on the NO 2 column uncertainty, which can reach 42 %, mainly due to tropospheric AMF uncertainties (Lorente et al, 2017). The underestimation of the NO 2 satellite products identified here at a large number of stations confirms what was obtained in previous validation exercises using fewer sites and different satellite products (Celarier et al, 2008;Brinksma et al, 2008;Vlemmix et al, 2010;Irie et al, 2008aIrie et al, , 2012Lin et al, 2014;Halla et al, 2011;Shaiganfar et al, 2011;Ma et al, 2013;Kanaya et al, 2014;Wang et al, 2017b;Mendolia et al, 2013;Tzortziou et al, 2014;Lamsal et al, 2014;Drosoglou et al, 2017;Herman et al, 2019;Judd et al, 2019;Compernolle et al, 2020). These studies generally reported small negative or positive biases over rural (unpolluted) measurement sites and stronger (systematic) negative biases over urban polluted sites.…”