Beating the urban heat: Situation, background, impacts and the way forward in China

BJ He, J Wang, J Zhu, J Qi - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper reviews urban heat (UrHT) challenges following the SBAR (situation,
background, assessment and recommendation) framework. The results indicate that …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Rapid increases in warm-season surface ozone and resulting health impact in China since 2013

X Lu, L Zhang, X Wang, M Gao, K Li… - … & Technology Letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
China's nationwide ozone monitoring network initiated in 2013 has observed severe surface
ozone pollution. This network, combined with the recent Tropospheric Ozone Assessment …

Effects of anthropogenic and biogenic volatile organic compounds on Los Angeles air quality

S Gu, A Guenther, C Faiola - Environmental science & technology, 2021 - ACS Publications
Assessing the role of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in production of ozone and
secondary organic aerosol (SOA) is especially important in light of ongoing policy goals …

[HTML][HTML] Environmental effects of stratospheric ozone depletion, UV radiation, and interactions with climate change: UNEP Environmental Effects Assessment Panel …

RE Neale, PW Barnes, TM Robson, PJ Neale… - Photochemical & …, 2021 - Springer
This assessment by the Environmental Effects Assessment Panel (EEAP) of the United
Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) provides the latest scientific update since our …

Quantifying the anthropogenic and meteorological influences on summertime surface ozone in China over 2012–2017

R Dang, H Liao, Y Fu - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
We applied the global 3-D chemical transport model GEOS-Chem to examine the
anthropogenic and meteorological contributions in driving summertime (JJA) surface ozone …

Large-scale climate patterns offer preseasonal hints on the co-occurrence of heat wave and O3 pollution in China

M Gao, F Wang, Y Ding, Z Wu, Y Xu… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Heat waves and air pollution extremes exert compounding effects on human health and food
security and may worsen under future climate change. On the basis of reconstructed daily …

Enhanced ozone pollution in the summer of 2022 in China: the roles of meteorology and emission variations

H Zheng, S Kong, Y He, C Song, Y Cheng, L Yao… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - Elsevier
The variation of surface ozone (O 3) is linked to changes in meteorology and emission. A
record-breaking high temperature struck China in the summer of 2022, resulting in positive …

Development and assessment of a high-resolution biogenic emission inventory from urban green spaces in China

M Ma, Y Gao, A Ding, H Su, H Liao… - … science & technology, 2021 - ACS Publications
Biogenic volatile organic compound (BVOC) emissions have long been known to play vital
roles in modulating the formation of ozone and secondary organic aerosols (SOAs). While …

Typhoon-boosted biogenic emission aggravates cross-regional ozone pollution in China

N Wang, X Huang, J Xu, T Wang, Z Tan, A Ding - Science Advances, 2022 - science.org
Ozone pollution that threatens human health and the ecosystem is a global environmental
challenge. In megacities, ozone pollution has long been mainly attributed to anthropogenic …