[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 …

Evaluating cost and benefit of air pollution control policies in China: A systematic review

X Liu, C Guo, Y Wu, C Huang, K Lu, Y Zhang… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
China has put great efforts into air pollution control over the past years and recently
committed to its most ambitious climate target. Cost and benefit analysis has been widely …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Seasonality and reduced nitric oxide titration dominated ozone increase during COVID-19 lockdown in eastern China

H Wang, C Huang, W Tao, Y Gao, S Wang… - Npj Climate and …, 2022 - nature.com
With improving PM2. 5 air quality, the tropospheric ozone (O3) has become the top issue of
China's air pollution control. Here, we combine comprehensive observational data analysis …

A comprehensive investigation on volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in 2018 in Beijing, China: Characteristics, sources and behaviours in response to O3 formation

C Li, Y Liu, B Cheng, Y Zhang, X Liu, Y Qu, J An… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Observations of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are a prerequisite for evaluating the
effectiveness of government efforts targeting VOC pollution. Here, based on the one-year …

Source apportionment and ozone formation mechanism of VOCs considering photochemical loss in Guangzhou, China

Y Zou, XL Yan, RM Flores, LY Zhang, SP Yang… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding the sources and impact of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) on ozone
formation is challenging when the traditional method does not account for their …

Decrease in ambient volatile organic compounds during the COVID-19 lockdown period in the Pearl River Delta region, south China

C Pei, W Yang, Y Zhang, W Song, S Xiao… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
During the COVID-19 lockdown, ambient ozone levels are widely reported to show much
smaller decreases or even dramatical increases under substantially reduced precursor NOx …

Oxalate-Promoted SO2 Uptake and Oxidation on Iron Minerals: Implications for Secondary Sulfate Aerosol Formation

Z Chen, H Li, H Shang, X Liu, F Guo, X Liu… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Mineral dust serves as a significant source of sulfate aerosols by mediating heterogeneous
sulfur dioxide (SO2) oxidation in the atmosphere. Given that a considerable proportion of …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on air quality—A global review

A Addas, A Maghrabi - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has emerged as a serious public health threat and
has had a tremendous impact on all spheres of the environment. The air quality across the …

Examining the implications of photochemical indicators for O3–NOx–VOC sensitivity and control strategies: a case study in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD), China

X Li, M Qin, L Li, K Gong, H Shen, J Li… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
Ozone (O 3) has become a significant air pollutant in China in recent years. O 3 abatement
is challenging due to the nonlinear response of O 3 to precursors nitrogen oxides (NO x) and …