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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 116, Issue 2, Pages 422-427Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1812168116
Keywords
surface ozone; China; aerosol chemistry; emission reductions; air quality
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [91744311]
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Observations of surface ozone available from similar to 1,000 sites across China for the past 5 years (2013-2017) show severe summertime pollution and regionally variable trends. We resolve the effect of meteorological variability on the ozone trends by using a multiple linear regression model. The residual of this regression shows increasing ozone trends of 1-3 ppbv a(-1) in megacity clusters of eastern China that we attribute to changes in anthropogenic emissions. By contrast, ozone decreased in some areas of southern China. Anthropogenic NOx emissions in China are estimated to have decreased by 21% during 2013-2017, whereas volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emissions changed little. Decreasing NOx would increase ozone under the VOC-limited conditions thought to prevail in urban China while decreasing ozone under rural NOx-limited conditions. However, simulations with the Goddard Earth Observing System Chemical Transport Model (GEOS-Chem) indicate that a more important factor for ozone trends in the North China Plain is the similar to 40% decrease of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) over the 2013-2017 period, slowing down the aerosol sink of hydroperoxy (HO2) radicals and thus stimulating ozone production.
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