Articles | Volume 20, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-6193-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-6193-2020
Research article
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28 May 2020
Research article |  | 28 May 2020

Temperature response measurements from eucalypts give insight into the impact of Australian isoprene emissions on air quality in 2050

Kathryn M. Emmerson, Malcolm Possell, Michael J. Aspinwall, Sebastian Pfautsch, and Mark G. Tjoelker

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Australian cities with a high biogenic influence will see higher pollution levels in a warmer climate. We show that four Eucalyptus species grown in future-climate conditions can emit isoprene at temperatures 9 K above the peak temperatures capping isoprene in biogenic-emission models. With these measurements, we predict up to 2 ppb increases in isoprene in 2050, causing up to 21 ppb of ozone and 0.4 µg m−3 of aerosol in Sydney. The ozone increase is one-fifth of the hourly air quality limit.
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