Temperature-Dependent Evaporative Anthropogenic VOC Emissions Significantly Exacerbate Regional Ozone Pollution

The evaporative emissions of anthropogenic volatile organic compounds (AVOCs) are sensitive to ambient temperature. This sensitivity forms an air pollution-meteorology connection that has not been assessed on a regional scale. We parametrized the temperature dependence of evaporative AVOC fluxes in a regional air quality model and evaluated the impacts on surface ozone in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH) area of China during the summer of 2017. The temperature dependency of AVOC emissions drove an enhanced simulated ozone-temperature sensitivity of 1.0 to 1.8 μg m-3 K-1, comparable to the simulated ozone-temperature sensitivity driven by the temperature dependency of biogenic VOC emissions (1.7 to 2.4 μg m-3 K-1). Ozone enhancements driven by temperature-induced AVOC increases were localized to their point of emission and were relatively more important in urban areas than in rural regions. The inclusion of the temperature-dependent AVOC emissions in our model improved the simulated ozone-temperature sensitivities on days of ozone exceedance. Our results demonstrated the importance of temperature-dependent AVOC emissions on surface ozone pollution and its heretofore unrepresented role in air pollution-meteorology interactions.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:58

Enthalten in:

Environmental science & technology - 58(2024), 12 vom: 26. März, Seite 5430-5441

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wu, Wenlu [VerfasserIn]
Fu, Tzung-May [VerfasserIn]
Arnold, Steve R [VerfasserIn]
Spracklen, Dominick V [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Aoxing [VerfasserIn]
Tao, Wei [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Xiaolin [VerfasserIn]
Hou, Yue [VerfasserIn]
Mo, Jiajia [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Jiongkai [VerfasserIn]
Li, Yumin [VerfasserIn]
Feng, Xu [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Haipeng [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Zhijiong [VerfasserIn]
Zheng, Junyu [VerfasserIn]
Shen, Huizhong [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Lei [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Chen [VerfasserIn]
Ye, Jianhuai [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Xin [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

66H7ZZK23N
Air Pollutants
Air quality
Anthropogenic emissions
Journal Article
Ozone
Surface ozone
Volatile Organic Compounds
Volatile organic compounds
WRF-GC

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Date Completed 27.03.2024

Date Revised 30.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1021/acs.est.3c09122

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM369608143