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@ARTICLE{Chang:838702,
author = {Chang, Kai-Lan and Petropavlovskikh, Irina and Cooper, Owen
and Schultz, Martin and Wang, Tao},
title = {{R}egional trend analysis of surface ozone observations
from monitoring networks in eastern {N}orth {A}merica,
{E}urope and {E}ast {A}sia},
journal = {Elementa},
volume = {5},
number = {0},
issn = {2325-1026},
address = {Washington, DC},
publisher = {BioOne},
reportid = {FZJ-2017-07263},
pages = {50 - 72},
year = {2017},
abstract = {Surface ozone is a greenhouse gas and pollutant detrimental
to human health and crop and ecosystem productivity. The
Tropospheric Ozone Assessment Report (TOAR) is designed to
provide the research community with an up-to-date
observation-based overview of tropospheric ozone’s global
distribution and trends. The TOAR Surface Ozone Database
contains ozone metrics at thousands of monitoring sites
around the world, densely clustered across mid-latitude
North America, western Europe and East Asia. Calculating
regional ozone trends across these locations is challenging
due to the uneven spacing of the monitoring sites across
urban and rural areas. To meet this challenge we conducted a
spatial and temporal trend analysis of several TOAR ozone
metrics across these three regions for summertime
(April–September) 2000–2014, using the generalized
additive mixed model (GAMM). Our analysis indicates that
East Asia has the greatest human and plant exposure to ozone
pollution among investigating regions, with increasing ozone
levels through 2014. The results also show that ozone mixing
ratios continue to decline significantly over eastern North
America and Europe, however, there is less evidence for
decreases of daytime average ozone at urban sites. The
present-day spatial coverage of ozone monitors in East Asia
(South Korea and Japan) and eastern North America is
adequate for estimating regional trends by simply taking the
average of the individual trends at each site. However the
European network is more sparsely populated across its
northern and eastern regions and therefore a simple average
of the individual trends at each site does not yield an
accurate regional trend. This analysis demonstrates that the
GAMM technique can be used to assess the regional
representativeness of existing monitoring networks,
indicating those networks for which a regional trend can be
obtained by simply averaging the trends of all individual
sites and those networks that require a more sophisticated
statistical approach.},
cin = {IEK-8},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IEK-8-20101013},
pnm = {243 - Tropospheric trace substances and their
transformation processes (POF3-243)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-243},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000409413300001},
doi = {10.1525/elementa.243},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/838702},
}