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Characteristics of Ground Ozone Concentration over Beijing from 2004 to 2015: Trends, Transport, and Effects of Reductions

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Title (Dublin Core)

Characteristics of Ground Ozone Concentration over Beijing from 2004 to
2015: Trends, Transport, and Effects of Reductions

Description (Dublin Core)

Based on the hourly ozone monitoring data during 2004&ndash;2015 in urban area and at DL background station in Beijing, a comprehensive discussion of the characteristics of ozone concentration was conducted. Annual concentration of daily maximum 1&thinsp;h ozone (O<sub>3</sub> 1&thinsp;h) was all increasing at urban sites (1.79&thinsp;ppbv&thinsp;yr<sup>&minus;1</sup>) and DL background station (2.05&thinsp;ppbv&thinsp;yr<sup>&minus;1</sup>) while daily maximum 8&thinsp;h average ozone concentration (O<sub>3</sub> 8&thinsp;h) was increasing in urban area (1.14&thinsp;ppbv&thinsp;yr<sup>&minus;1</sup>) and slightly decreasing at DL background station (&minus;0.47&thinsp;ppbv&thinsp;yr<sup>&minus;1</sup>) from 2004 to 2015 due to different ozone sensitivity regimes and ratios of NO<sub>2</sub>/NO. Diurnal variation of ozone peaks obtained at downwind DL station were about 1&thinsp;h later than that in urban area from May to October in different years and concentration of ozone at a DL background station was much higher than that of urban sites. Moreover, the difference of ozone peaks between urban sites and DL background station was significantly becoming smaller in recent years, which may be related to the regional ozone transport and the expansion urbanization of Beijing. Based on the joint efforts of regional air pollution prevention and control,Beijing achieved Sep 3 military blue. Calculated average concentrations of CO, NO<sub>2</sub>, and O<sub>3</sub> in S2 (Aug 20~31, 2015) and S3 (Sep 01~03, 2015) decreased by 31.48&thinsp;%, 43.97&thinsp;%, and 13.21&thinsp;% at urban sites, and by 20.93&thinsp;%, 57.10&thinsp;%, and 23.62&thinsp;% at DL station, respectively compared with those in S1 (Aug 01~19,2015) and S4 Sep 04~30, 2015). A reduction of local anthropogenic emissions such as VOCs and NOx could reduce ozone efficiently especially in downwind areas of Beijing and made the ozone peaks decrease significantly and appear 2~3&thinsp;h earlier compared to the scenarios of no emission reductions. Compared to the increasing ozone during Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)meeting period,to decrease the ozone concentration in Beijing, VOCs emissions should be reduced larger and be controlled stricter than that of NO<sub><i>x</i></sub> in Beijing and the policy of regional air pollution joint prevention and control should still be promoted unswervingly and jointly in the further.

Creator (Dublin Core)

Cheng, Nianliang
Li, Yunting
Zhang, Dawei
Chen, Tian
Sun, Feng
Chen, Chen
Meng, Fan

Date (Dublin Core)

2018-10-30

Type (Dublin Core)

Text

Format (Dublin Core)

application/pdf

Identifier (Dublin Core)

10.5194/acp-2016-508
https://acp.copernicus.org/preprints/acp-2016-508/

Source (Dublin Core)

eISSN: 1680-7324

Language (Dublin Core)

eng
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