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Shen L, Liu J, Zhao T, Xu X, Han H, Wang H, Shu Z. Atmospheric transport drives regional interactions of ozone pollution in China. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2022; 830:154634. [PMID: 35307436 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154634] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/25/2021] [Revised: 03/13/2022] [Accepted: 03/13/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
Abstract
In recent years, ozone pollution becomes a serious environmental issue in China. A good understanding of source-receptor relationships of ozone transport from aboard and inside China is beneficial to mitigating ozone pollution there. To date, these issues have not been comprehensively assessed, especially for highly polluted regions in the central and eastern China (CEC), including the North China Plain (NCP), Twain-Hu region (THR), Yangtze River Delta (YRD), Pearl River Delta (PRD), and Sichuan Basin (SCB). Here, based on simulations over 2013-2020 from a well-validated chemical transport model, GEOS-Chem, we show that foreign ozone accounts for a large portion of surface ozone over CEC, ranging from 25.0% in THR to 39.4% in NCP. Focusing on transport of domestic ozone between the five regions in CEC, we find that atmospheric transport can largely modulate regional interactions of ozone pollution in China. At the surface, THR receives the largest amount of ozone from the other four regions (54.2% of domestic ozone in the receptor region, the same in below), followed by PRD (32.3%), SCB (26.7%), YRD (21.1%), and NCP (18.0%). Meanwhile, YRD exports largest amount of ozone to the other regions, ranging from 8.9% in SCB to 28.4% in THR. Although SCB is relatively isolated and thus impacts NCP, YRD, and PRD weakly (< 2.2%), export of SCB ozone to THR reaches 9.3%. The regional ozone transport over CEC, occurring mostly in the lower troposphere, is mainly modulated by the East Asian monsoon circulations, proximity between source and receptor regions, seasonal changes of ozone production, and topography.
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- Lijuan Shen
- Key Laboratory for Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation of the China Meteorological Administration, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China; Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S3G3, Canada
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- Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S3G3, Canada.
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- Key Laboratory for Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation of the China Meteorological Administration, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Disastrous Weather, China Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
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- Laboratory for Climate and Ocean-Atmosphere Studies, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Key Laboratory for Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation of the China Meteorological Administration, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China; Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S3G3, Canada
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- Key Laboratory for Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation of the China Meteorological Administration, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
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Ziemke JR, Strode SA, Douglass AR, Joiner J, Vasilkov A, Oman LD, Liu J, Strahan SE, Bhartia PK, Haffner DP. A Cloud-Ozone Data Product from Aura OMI and MLS Satellite Measurements. ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES 2017; 10:4067-4078. [PMID: 29456762 PMCID: PMC5810404 DOI: 10.5194/amt-10-4067-2017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Ozone within deep convective clouds is controlled by several factors involving photochemical reactions and transport. Gas-phase photochemical reactions and heterogeneous surface chemical reactions involving ice, water particles, and aerosols inside the clouds all contribute to the distribution and net production and loss of ozone. Ozone in clouds is also dependent on convective transport that carries low troposphere/boundary layer ozone and ozone precursors upward into the clouds. Characterizing ozone in thick clouds is an important step for quantifying relationships of ozone with tropospheric H2O, OH production, and cloud microphysics/transport properties. Although measuring ozone in deep convective clouds from either aircraft or balloon ozonesondes is largely impossible due to extreme meteorological conditions associated with these clouds, it is possible to estimate ozone in thick clouds using backscattered solar UV radiation measured by satellite instruments. Our study combines Aura Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) and Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) satellite measurements to generate a new research product of monthly-mean ozone concentrations in deep convective clouds between 30°S to 30°N for October 2004 - April 2016. These measurements represent mean ozone concentration primarily in the upper levels of thick clouds and reveal key features of cloud ozone including: persistent low ozone concentrations in the tropical Pacific of ~10 ppbv or less; concentrations of up to 60 pphv or greater over landmass regions of South America, southern Africa, Australia, and India/east Asia; connections with tropical ENSO events; and intra-seasonal/Madden-Julian Oscillation variability. Analysis of OMI aerosol measurements suggests a cause and effect relation between boundary layer pollution and elevated ozone inside thick clouds over land-mass regions including southern Africa and India/east Asia.
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- Jerald R Ziemke
- Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
- Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
- SSAI, Lanham, Maryland, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
- Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
- Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
- SSAI, Lanham, Maryland, USA
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Liu J, Rodriguez JM, Thompson AM, Logan JA, Douglass AR, Olsen MA, Steenrod SD, Posny F. Origins of tropospheric ozone interannual variation (IAV) over Réunion: A model investigation. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH. ATMOSPHERES : JGR 2016; 121:521-537. [PMID: 29657911 PMCID: PMC5896576 DOI: 10.1002/2015jd023981] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Observations from long-term ozonesonde measurements show robust variations and trends in the evolution of ozone in the middle and upper troposphere over Réunion Island (21.1°S, 55.5°E) in June-August. Here we examine possible causes of the observed ozone variation at Réunion Island using hindcast simulations by the stratosphere-troposphere Global Modeling Initiative chemical transport model (GMI-CTM) for 1992-2014, driven by assimilated Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications (MERRA) meteorological fields. Réunion Island is at the edge of the subtropical jet, a region of strong stratospheric-tropospheric exchange (STE). Our analysis implies that the large interannual variation (IAV) of upper tropospheric ozone over Réunion is driven by the large IAV of the stratospheric influence. The IAV of the large-scale, quasi-horizontal wind patterns also contributes to the IAV of ozone in the upper troposphere. Comparison to a simulation with constant emissions indicates that increasing emissions do not lead to the maximum trend in the middle and upper troposphere over Réunion during austral winter implied by the sonde data. The effects of increasing emission over southern Africa are limited to the lower troposphere near the surface in August - September.
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- Junhua Liu
- Universities Space Research Association (USRA), GESTAR, Columbia, MD, USA
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
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- School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
- Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Universities Space Research Association (USRA), GESTAR, Columbia, MD, USA
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
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- Laboratoire de l’Atmosphère et des Cyclones (LACy), Université de La Réunion/CNRS, La Réunion, France
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Murray LT, Jacob DJ, Logan JA, Hudman RC, Koshak WJ. Optimized regional and interannual variability of lightning in a global chemical transport model constrained by LIS/OTD satellite data. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012. [DOI: 10.1029/2012jd017934] [Citation(s) in RCA: 245] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Yuan T, Remer LA, Bian H, Ziemke JR, Albrecht R, Pickering KE, Oreopoulos L, Goodman SJ, Yu H, Allen DJ. Aerosol indirect effect on tropospheric ozone via lightning. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012. [DOI: 10.1029/2012jd017723] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Walker TW, Jones DBA, Parrington M, Henze DK, Murray LT, Bottenheim JW, Anlauf K, Worden JR, Bowman KW, Shim C, Singh K, Kopacz M, Tarasick DW, Davies J, von der Gathen P, Thompson AM, Carouge CC. Impacts of midlatitude precursor emissions and local photochemistry on ozone abundances in the Arctic. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012. [DOI: 10.1029/2011jd016370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Cooper M, Martin RV, Sauvage B, Boone CD, Walker KA, Bernath PF, McLinden CA, Degenstein DA, Volz-Thomas A, Wespes C. Evaluation of ACE-FTS and OSIRIS Satellite retrievals of ozone and nitric acid in the tropical upper troposphere: Application to ozone production efficiency. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011. [DOI: 10.1029/2010jd015056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Nassar R, Logan JA, Megretskaia IA, Murray LT, Zhang L, Jones DBA. Analysis of tropical tropospheric ozone, carbon monoxide, and water vapor during the 2006 El Niño using TES observations and the GEOS-Chem model. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2009. [DOI: 10.1029/2009jd011760] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Saunois M, Mari C, Thouret V, Cammas JP, Peyrillé P, Lafore JP, Sauvage B, Volz-Thomas A, Nédélec P, Pinty JP. An idealized two-dimensional approach to study the impact of the West African monsoon on the meridional gradient of tropospheric ozone. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008. [DOI: 10.1029/2007jd008707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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