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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ESSDD</journal-id>
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<journal-title>Earth System Science Data Discussions</journal-title>
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<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">1866-3591</issn>
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<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/essd-2025-817</article-id>
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<article-title>Signal-Domain Guided Deep Learning for Gap-Filling of XCO and XCH&lt;sub&gt;4&lt;/sub&gt;: A Masked Spatio-Temporal Fusion of TROPOMI and GEOS-Chem (2019&amp;ndash;2023)</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Li</surname>
<given-names>Zhiwei</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Tian</surname>
<given-names>Yuan</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Lin</surname>
<given-names>Peize</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Chang</surname>
<given-names>Bowen</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0236-580X</ext-link>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Xue</surname>
<given-names>Jingkai</given-names>
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<sup>3</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Institutes of Physical Science and Information Technology, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>National Key Laboratory of Opto-Electronic Information Acquisition and Protection Technology, Institutes of Physical Science and Information Technology, Anhui University, Hefei, Anhui, P.R.  China</addr-line>
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<label>3</label>
<addr-line>School of Environmental Science and Optoelectronic Technology, University of Science and  Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>27</day>
<month>01</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>2026</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>34</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Zhiwei Li et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<p>Long-term, high-resolution monitoring of carbon monoxide (CO) and methane (CH&lt;sub&gt;4&lt;/sub&gt;) is essential for understanding their spatiotemporal variability and guiding climate mitigation strategies. However, satellite observations like TROPOMI are often incomplete, and existing fusion methods have limitations in accuracy and continuity. This study proposes a signal-domain fusion approach combining 3D discrete cosine transform (DCT) and singular value decomposition (SVD) to integrate TROPOMI data with GEOS-Chem simulations. A lightweight residual U-Net is employed to refine the initial reconstruction by learning the residual field using meteorological drivers and model outputs, guided by a masked loss. The method produces global 0.25&amp;deg; and China-specific 0.05&amp;deg; daily gap-free XCO and XCH&lt;sub&gt;4&lt;/sub&gt; datasets from 2019 to 2023. The fused results outperform GEOS-Chem and are comparable or superior to TROPOMI, with R&amp;sup2; values of 0.92 for XCO and 0.85 for XCH&lt;sub&gt;4&lt;/sub&gt;. Trend analysis reveals regional patterns such as XCO increases in North America and declines in Eastern China, and widespread CH&lt;sub&gt;4&lt;/sub&gt; growth. High-resolution data captures enhancements during the 2022 Chongqing wildfires, with average increases of 17.1 ppb in XCO and 24.5 ppb in XCH&lt;sub&gt;4&lt;/sub&gt;, and reveals lower XCH&lt;sub&gt;4&lt;/sub&gt; increases over rice-growing areas compared to TROPOMI, with overestimation reduced by 17&amp;ndash;26 %, and stronger XCO reductions, with satellite underestimations up to 38 %. These results highlight agricultural contributions and policy impacts. This approach effectively reconstructs missing observations and enhances the utility of satellite&amp;ndash;model data for atmospheric research and emission assessments. The generated daily gap-free datasets are publicly available at &lt;a href=&quot;https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17936461&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noopener&quot;&gt;https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17936461&lt;/a&gt;.</p>
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