At the surface, tropospheric ozone is an air pollutant that adversely impacts human health, natural vegetation and crop yield and quality. This important trace gas also plays key roles as a greenhouse gas, and as the ...At the surface, tropospheric ozone is an air pollutant that adversely impacts human health, natural vegetation and crop yield and quality. This important trace gas also plays key roles as a greenhouse gas, and as the primary source of the hydroxyl (OH) radical, which determines the lifetime of many other trace gases in the atmosphere. Tropospheric ozone has a variety of sources including photochemical production from anthropogenic and naturally occurring precursor gases, and transport from the stratosphere. As a result of 让s high reactivity and its wide range of sources,*sozone lifetime can vary from minutes in the polluted boundary layer to several weeks in the mid- and upper troposphere.展开更多
文摘At the surface, tropospheric ozone is an air pollutant that adversely impacts human health, natural vegetation and crop yield and quality. This important trace gas also plays key roles as a greenhouse gas, and as the primary source of the hydroxyl (OH) radical, which determines the lifetime of many other trace gases in the atmosphere. Tropospheric ozone has a variety of sources including photochemical production from anthropogenic and naturally occurring precursor gases, and transport from the stratosphere. As a result of 让s high reactivity and its wide range of sources,*sozone lifetime can vary from minutes in the polluted boundary layer to several weeks in the mid- and upper troposphere.
