Articles | Volume 22, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-4705-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-4705-2022
Research article
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11 Apr 2022
Research article |  | 11 Apr 2022

North China Plain as a hot spot of ozone pollution exacerbated by extreme high temperatures

Pinya Wang, Yang Yang, Huimin Li, Lei Chen, Ruijun Dang, Daokai Xue, Baojie Li, Jianping Tang, L. Ruby Leung, and Hong Liao

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JRA-55: Japanese 55-year Reanalysis, Daily 3-Hourly and 6-Hourly Data Japan Meteorological Agency/Japan https://doi.org/10.5065/D6HH6H41

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China is now suffering from both severe ozone (O3) pollution and heat events. We highlight that North China Plain is the hot spot of the co-occurrences of extremes in O3 and high temperatures in China. Such coupled extremes exhibit an increasing trend during 2014–2019 and will continue to increase until the middle of this century. And the coupled extremes impose more severe health impacts to human than O3 pollution occurring alone because of elevated O3 levels and temperatures.
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