Significant increase of surface ozone at a rural site, north of eastern  China

Ma, Zhiqiang; Xu, Jing; Quan, Weijun; Zhang, Ziyin; Lin, Weili; Xu, Xiaobin

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-3969-2016

Articles | Volume 16, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-3969-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-3969-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 6

Research article

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24 Mar 2016

Research article |

| 24 Mar 2016

Significant increase of surface ozone at a rural site, north of eastern China

Zhiqiang Ma, Jing Xu, Weijun Quan, Ziyin Zhang, Weili Lin, and Xiaobin Xu

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Final revised paper (published on 24 Mar 2016)
Preprint (discussion started on 13 Nov 2015)

Interactive discussion

Status: closed

AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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SC C9685: 'Need to discuss the role of climate variability and circulation shifts', Meiyun Lin, 24 Nov 2015
- AC C11234: 'interactive comment on "Significant increase of surface ozone at a regional background station in the eastern China"', Z.Q. Ma, 07 Jan 2016
  - SC C11251: 'Need a careful review of past literature', Meiyun Lin, 07 Jan 2016
RC C10276: 'Anonymous review', Anonymous Referee #1, 09 Dec 2015
- AC C12710: 'response to reviewer 1', Z.Q. Ma, 24 Feb 2016
RC C11936: 'Editor Review', James B. Burkholder, 22 Jan 2016
- AC C12718: 'response to reviewer', Z.Q. Ma, 24 Feb 2016

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Z.Q. Ma on behalf of the Authors (24 Feb 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Reconsider after minor revisions (Editor review) (02 Mar 2016) by James B. Burkholder

AR by Z.Q. Ma on behalf of the Authors (11 Mar 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (14 Mar 2016) by James B. Burkholder

AR by Z.Q. Ma on behalf of the Authors (15 Mar 2016)

Short summary

In this paper, we find that the daily maximum 8 h O₃ in the eastern China has undergone a significant increase during 2003–2015, with a rate of 1.1 ppb per year. The increase of surface ozone was mainly induced by the emission changes and the meteorological factors just played a tiny negative influence. Our result also indicates that VOCs seem to play more important role in the ozone increase than the effect of NO titration.