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In moderately polluted (5 \u00d7 1015 molecules cm\u22122 &lt; NO2 vertical column density (VCD) &lt; 2 \u00d7 1016 molecules cm\u22122) and clean regions (NO2 VCD &lt; 5 \u00d7 1015 molecules cm\u22122), the correlation coefficient (R) between true NO2 SCDs and those retrieved is 0.88 and 0.79, respectively, and AOD and APH are about 0.1 and is 0 km, respectively. However, when AOD and APH are about 1.0 and 4 km, respectively, the R decreases to 0.84 and 0.53 in moderately polluted and clean regions, respectively. On the other hand, in heavily polluted regions (NO2 VCD &gt; 2 \u00d7 1016 molecules cm\u22122), even high AOD and APH values are found to have a negligible effect on NO2 SCD precision. In high AOD and APH conditions in clean NO2 regions, the R between true NO2 SCDs and those retrieved increases from 0.53 to 0.58 via co-adding four pixels spatially, showing the improvement in accuracy of NO2 SCD retrieval. 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