Tropospheric ozone and its precursors from the urban to the global scale from air quality to short-lived climate forcer
University of Leicester · University of Cambridge · +18 more institutions
Abstract
Abstract. Ozone holds a certain fascination in atmospheric science. It is ubiquitous in the atmosphere, central to tropospheric oxidation chemistry, yet harmful to human and ecosystem health as well as being an important greenhouse gas. It is not emitted into the atmosphere but is a byproduct of the very oxidation chemistry it largely initiates. Much effort is focused on the reduction of surface levels of ozone owing to its health and vegetation impacts, but recent efforts to achieve reductions in exposure at a country scale have proved difficult to achieve owing to increases in background ozone at the zonal hemispheric scale. There is also a growing realisation that the role of ozone as a short-lived climate…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 53.29
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- 100%
- References
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Authors
17- PSP. S. MonksCorresponding
University of Leicester
- ATAlexander T. Archibald
University of Cambridge, National Centre for Atmospheric Science
- ACAugustin Colette
Institut national de l'environnement industriel et des risques
- OROwen R. Cooper
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
- MCMhairi Coyle
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Topics & keywords
- Tropospheric ozone
- Ozone
- Air quality index
- Environmental science
- Climate change
- Greenhouse gas
- Scale (ratio)
- Atmosphere (unit)
- Climate action