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Climate-driven ground-level ozone extreme in the fall over the Southeast United States
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Ground-level ozone is adverse to human and vegetation health. High ground-level ozone concentrations usually occur over the United States in the summer, often referred to as the ozone season. However, observed monthly mean ozone concentrations in the southeastern United States were higher in October than July in 2010. The October ozone average in 2010 reached that of July in the past three decades (1980-2010). Our analysis shows that this extreme October ozone in 2010 over the Southeast is due in part to a dry and warm weather condition, which enhances photochemical production, air stagnation, and fire emissions. Observational evidence and modeling analysis also indicate that another significant contributor is enhanced emissions of biogenic isoprene, a major ozone precursor, from water-stressed plants under a dry and warm condition. The latter finding is corroborated by recent laboratory and field studies. This climate-induced biogenic control also explains the puzzling fact that the two extremes of high October ozone both occurred in the 2000s when anthropogenic emissions were lower than the 1980s and 1990s, in contrast to the observed decreasing trend of July ozone in the region. The occurrences of a drying and warming fall, projected by climate models, will likely lead to more active photochemistry, enhanced biogenic isoprene and fire emissions, an extension of the ozone season from summer to fall, and an increase of secondary organic aerosols in the Southeast, posing challenges to regional air quality management.
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“This finding suggests that occurrences of a drying and warming fall in the future may lead to an extension of the ozone season from summer to fall in the regions with significant biogenic VOC emissions.”
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“However, ozone during the fall reached the summer level in several Octobers in the 2000s and in 2010 over the southeastern United States. This was attributed to enhanced emissions of biogenic isoprene (a VOC precursor of ozone) from water-stressed plants under a drying and warming condition (10).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Zhang, Y., & Wang, Y.
- Affiliations
- Georgia Institute of Technology (US)
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2016-08-22
- Volume
- 113
- Issue
- 36
- Pages
- 10025-10030
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- PMC
- PMC5018760
- OpenAlex
- W2515872853
- Cited by
- 132
- References
- 58
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 17 · 2022: 19 · 2021: 27 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 10 · 2017: 14
- FWCI
- 7.51
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Environmental Protection Agency (RD-83520401)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Keywords
- surface ozone, climate change, isoprene emissions, photochemical ozone formation, fire emissions, air stagnation, secondary organic aerosol, air quality, southeastern United States, climate change projections
- MeSH terms
- Wildfires, Air Pollutants, Air Pollution, Butadienes, Environmental Monitoring, Humans, Ozone, Pentanes, Plants, Seasons, Weather, Southeastern United States, Models, Statistical, Hemiterpenes, Droughts
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