Ground-level ozone pollution in China: a synthesis of recent findings on influencing factors and impacts

T Wang, L Xue, Z Feng, J Dai, Y Zhang… - Environmental …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Ozone (O3) in the troposphere is an air pollutant and a greenhouse gas. In mainland China,
after the Air Pollution Prevention and Action Plan was implemented in 2013—and despite …

Ozone pollution in China: A review of concentrations, meteorological influences, chemical precursors, and effects

T Wang, L Xue, P Brimblecombe, YF Lam, L Li… - Science of the Total …, 2017 - Elsevier
High concentrations of ozone in urban and industrial regions worldwide have long been a
major air quality issue. With the rapid increase in fossil fuel consumption in China over the …

Air pollution in China: status and spatiotemporal variations

C Song, L Wu, Y Xie, J He, X Chen, T Wang, Y Lin… - Environmental …, 2017 - Elsevier
In recent years, China has experienced severe and persistent air pollution associated with
rapid urbanization and climate change. Three years' time series (January 2014 to December …

Aggravating O3 pollution due to NOx emission control in eastern China

N Wang, X Lyu, X Deng, X Huang, F Jiang… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
During the past five years, China has witnessed a rapid drop of nitrogen oxides (NO x)
owing to the wildly-applied rigorous emission control strategies across the country …

Ozone and fine particle in the western Yangtze River Delta: an overview of 1 yr data at the SORPES station

AJ Ding, CB Fu, XQ Yang, JN Sun… - Atmospheric …, 2013 - acp.copernicus.org
This work presents an overview of 1 yr measurements of ozone (O 3) and fine particular
matter (PM 2.5) and related trace gases at a recently developed regional background site …

[HTML][HTML] Daytime atmospheric oxidation capacity in four Chinese megacities during the photochemically polluted season: a case study based on box model simulation

Z Tan, K Lu, M Jiang, R Su, H Wang… - Atmospheric …, 2019 - acp.copernicus.org
Atmospheric oxidation capacity is the basis for converting freshly emitted substances into
secondary products and is dominated by reactions involving hydroxyl radicals (OH) during …

Molecular characterization of brown carbon (BrC) chromophores in secondary organic aerosol generated from photo-oxidation of toluene

P Lin, J Liu, JE Shilling, SM Kathmann… - Physical Chemistry …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Atmospheric brown carbon (BrC) is a significant contributor to light absorption and climate
forcing. However, little is known about a fundamental relationship between the chemical …

Explicit diagnosis of the local ozone production rate and the ozone-NOx-VOC sensitivities

Z Tan, K Lu, H Dong, M Hu, X Li, Y Liu, S Lu, M Shao… - Science bulletin, 2018 - Elsevier
In the troposphere, ozone is a harmful gas compound to both human health and vegetation.
Ozone is produced from the reaction of NO x (double bondNO+ NO 2) and VOCs (volatile …

Photochemical ozone pollution in five Chinese megacities in summer 2018

X Liu, H Guo, L Zeng, X Lyu, Y Wang, Y Zeren… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
To investigate photochemical ozone (O 3) pollution in urban areas in China, O 3 and its
precursors and meteorological parameters were simultaneously measured in five …

Investigation of primary and secondary particulate brown carbon in two Chinese cities of Xi'an and Hong Kong in wintertime

Q Zhang, Z Shen, L Zhang, Y Zeng, Z Ning… - Environmental …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Brown carbon (BrC), an aerosol carbonaceous matter component, impacts atmospheric
radiation and global climate because of its absorption in the near-ultraviolet–visible region …