Tropospheric Ozone Trends in a Rapidly Changing World

Session ID#: 122823

Session Description:
Ozone in the troposphere plays a central role in atmospheric chemistry. It is a major greenhouse gas and a harmful air pollutant to human respiratory health and vegetation. Long-term observations of ozone reveal diverse and significant trends around the world. Interplay among precursor emissions, complex non-linear chemistry, and climate determines the abundance and trends of ozone. In this session, we solicit presentations of (1) tropospheric ozone studies in association with long-term climate change, (2) studies that explore the impact of short-term climate variability (e.g. ENSO), and 3) studies that quantify the impacts of rapid changes in emissions, on the time scale of a decade (e.g. recent increase of surface ozone in China), or on the time scale of one or two years (e.g. changes observed during the COVID-19 pandemic). Analyses that range from global scale modeling to process studies at the urban and vegetation canopy scale are welcome.
Index Terms:

0345 Pollution: urban and regional [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0365 Troposphere: composition and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0368 Troposphere: constituent transport and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
3305 Climate change and variability [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]


Primary Convener:  Si-Wan Kim, Irreversible Climate Change Research Center, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
Conveners:  Owen R Cooper, CIRES, U. of Colorado/ NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States and Meehye Lee, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea
Primary Liaison:  Meiyun Lin, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University/ NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States
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