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Keywords

  • surface ozone
  • emissions changes
  • climate changes

Index Terms

  • Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Pollution: urban and regional
  • Global Change: Regional climate change
  • Global Change: Impacts of global change

Abstract

GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 34, L08811, 5 PP., 2007
doi:10.1029/2007GL029455

Sensitivity of U.S. surface ozone to future emissions and climate changes

Zhining Tao

Illinois State Water Survey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, USA

Allen Williams

Illinois State Water Survey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, USA

Ho-Chun Huang

Illinois State Water Survey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, USA

Michael Caughey

Illinois State Water Survey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, USA

Xin-Zhong Liang

Illinois State Water Survey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, USA

The relative contributions of projected future emissions and climate changes to U.S. surface ozone concentrations are investigated focusing on California, the Midwest, the Northeast, and Texas. By 2050 regional average ozone concentrations increase by 2–15% under the IPCC SRES A1Fi (“dirty”) scenario, and decrease by 4–12% under the B1 (relatively “clean”) scenario. However, the magnitudes of ozone changes differ significantly between major metropolitan and rural areas. These ozone changes are dominated by the emissions changes in 61% area of the contiguous U.S. under the B1 scenario, but are largely determined by the projected climate changes in 46% area under the A1Fi scenario. In the ozone responses to climate changes, the biogenic emissions changes contribute strongly over the Northeast, moderately in the Midwest, and negligibly in other regions.

Received 23 January 2007; accepted 27 March 2007; published 27 April 2007.

Citation: Tao, Z., A. Williams, H.-C. Huang, M. Caughey, and X.-Z. Liang (2007), Sensitivity of U.S. surface ozone to future emissions and climate changes, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L08811, doi:10.1029/2007GL029455.

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