Why is ozone in South Korea and the Seoul metropolitan area so high and increasing?

NK Colombi, DJ Jacob, LH Yang, S Zhai… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - acp.copernicus.org
Surface ozone pollution in South Korea has increased over the past 2 decades, despite
efforts to decrease emissions, and is pervasively in exceedance of the maximum daily 8 h …

Do heat waves worsen air quality? A 21-year observational study in Seoul, South Korea

K Park, HG Jin, JJ Baik - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Heat waves are generally known to deteriorate air quality. However, the impacts of heat
waves on air quality can substantially vary depending on the characteristics of heat waves …

Deciphering decadal urban ozone trends from historical records since 1980

H Wang, X Lu, PI Palmer, L Zhang, K Lu… - National Science …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Ozone pollution is a major environmental threat to human health. Timely assessment of
ozone trends is crucial for informing environmental policy. Here we show that for the most …

Understanding of enhanced nitrate in fine particles at agricultural sites in summer with high ammonia level

J Kim, J Jang, D Oh, F Ashraf, HJ Lim, K Park - Environmental Pollution, 2025 - Elsevier
Nitrate is one of the major constituents of fine particles and has not been effectively
alleviated in Northeast Asia. Field measurements of various gases and the chemical …

High summer background O3 levels in the desert of northwest China

X Ren, F Wang, B Wu, S Zhang, L Zhang… - Journal of …, 2025 - Elsevier
Generally speaking, the precursors of ozone (O 3), nitrogen oxides and volatile organic
compounds are very low in desert areas due to the lack of anthropogenic emissions and …

Changes in surface ozone in South Korea on diurnal to decadal time scale for the period of 2001–2021

SW Kim, KM Kim, Y Jeong, S Seo… - … Chemistry and Physics …, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
Increasing trends of tropospheric ozone in South Korea in the last decades have reported in
several studies, based on various metrics. In this study, we derived the trends of surface …

Understanding Ozone Formation and Carbonyl Contributions in the Seoul Metropolitan Area

SH Lee, JS Lee, HM Lee, HA Kwon, CR Nowlan… - Aerosol and Air Quality …, 2024 - aaqr.org
With strong air quality policies in place in China and South Korea in recent years, it is
important to understand the changing situation to address the increasing surface ozone …

A case study of surface ozone source contributions in the Seoul metropolitan area using the adjoint of CMAQ

A Kashfi Yeganeh, M Momeni, Y Choi… - Journal of the Air & …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
To quantitatively investigate the transboundary behaviors and source attributions of ozone
(O3) and its precursor species over East Asia, we utilize the adjoint technique in the CMAQ …

Why is ozone in South Korea and the Seoul Metropolitan Area so high and increasing?

NK Colombi, DJ Jacob, LH Yang, S Zhai… - …, 2022 - egusphere.copernicus.org
Surface ozone pollution in South Korea has increased over the past two decades, despite
efforts to decrease emissions, and is pervasively in exceedance of the maximum daily 8-hr …

The estimation of urban air quality change in South Korea under the carbon net-zero scenario

MJ Yeo, JH Koo - Urban Climate, 2023 - Elsevier
This study analyzed the potential impact of a carbon net-zero scenario on the atmosphere in
the Republic of Korea, specifically relating to the changes in the surface ozone (O 3) …