We introduce an innovative method to distinguish soil nitrogen oxides (NOx=NO+NO2) emissions from satellite-based total NOx emissions using its seasonal characteristics. To evaluate the approach, we compare the deviation between the tropospheric NO2 concentration observed by satellite and two atmospheric composition model simulations driven by the newly estimated soil NOx emissions and the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) inventory. The estimated average soil NOx emissions in Europe are 2.5 kg N ha-1 yr-1 in 2019, and the annual soil NOx emissions is approximately 2.5 times larger than that of the CAMS inventory. Our method can easily be extended to other regions at middle or high latitudes with similar seasonal characteristics of soil emissions. The soil emissions are subtracted from the total NOx emissions yielding realistic anthropogenic NOx emissions. We further show this also yields realistic anthropogenic CO2 emissions using known CO2/NOx factors from bottom-up inventories.