1 TransCom N2O model inter-comparison Part II: Atmospheric 1 inversion estimates of N2O emissions 2 3 R. L. Thompson, K. Ishijima, E. Saikawa, M. Corazza, U. Karstens, P. K. Patra, 4 P. Bergamaschi, F. Chevallier, E. Dlugokencky, R. G. Prinn, R. F. Weiss, S. O’Doherty, 5 P. J. Fraser, L. P. Steele, P. B. Krummel, A. Vermeulen, Y. Tohjima, A. Jordan, 6 L. Haszpra, M. Steinbacher, S. Van der Laan, T. Aalto, F. Meinhardt, 7 M. E. Popa, J. Moncrieff, and P. Bousquet 8 9 1. Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Kjeller, Norway 10 2. Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et l'Environnement, Gif sur Yvette, France 11 3. Research Institute for Global Change, JAMSTEC, Yokohama, Japan 12 4. Center for Global Change Science, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA 13 5. Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA 14 6. Institute for Environment and Sustainability, JRC, Ispra, Italy 15 7. Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany 16 8. NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Global Monitoring Division, Boulder, CO, 17 USA 18 9. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, USA 19 10. Atmospheric Chemistry Research Group, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, 20 Bristol, United Kingdom 21 11. Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research, CSIRO, Marine and Atmospheric 22 Research, Aspendale, Victoria, Australia 23 12. Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN), Petten, The Netherlands 24 13. National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan 25 14. Hungarian Meteorological Service, Budapest, Hungary 26 15. Geodetic and Geophysical Institute, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, 27 Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Sopron, Hungary 28 16. Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa), Duebendorf, 29 Switzerland 30 17. University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands 31 18. Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland 32 19. Umweltbundesamt, Messstelle Schauinsland, Kirchzarten, Germany 33 20. University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands 34 21. University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom 35 36 37 Abstract 38