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Research article
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28 Jan 2025
Research article |
| 28 Jan 2025
| 28 Jan 2025
Urban ozone formation and sensitivities to volatile chemical products, cooking emissions, and NOx upwind of and within two Los Angeles Basin cities
Chelsea E. Stockwell
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Matthew M. Coggon
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Rebecca H. Schwantes
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Colin Harkins
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Bert Verreyken
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
now at: Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB), Brussels, Belgium
now at: Biosystems Dynamics and Exchanges (BIODYNE), Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
Congmeng Lyu
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Qindan Zhu
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
now at: Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
now at: Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA
Jessica B. Gilman
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Aaron Lamplugh
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
now at: Technical Services Program, Air Pollution Control Division, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Denver, CO 80246, USA
Jeff Peischl
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
now at: NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Michael A. Robinson
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Patrick R. Veres
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
now at: National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO 80307, USA
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Andrew W. Rollins
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Kristen Zuraski
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Sunil Baidar
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Shang Liu
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Toshihiro Kuwayama
California Air Resources Board, Sacramento, CA 95814, USA
Steven S. Brown
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Brian C. McDonald
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Carsten Warneke
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Data sets
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory SUVNEx dataset for “Urban ozone formation and sensitivities to volatile chemical products, cooking emissions, and NOx upwind of and within two Los Angeles Basin cities” C. E. Stockwell et al. https://csl.noaa.gov/projects/sunvex/
Analysis code and WRF-Chem source code for “A better representation of volatile organic compound chemistry in WRF-Chem and its impact on ozone over Los Angeles” Q. Zhu et al. https://github.com/NOAA-CSL/WRF-Chem_CSL_Publications/tree/main/Qindan_Zhu_et_al_2024TS15
FIVE-VCP-NEI17NRT emission inventory C. Harkins and B. C. McDonald https://csl.noaa.gov/groups/csl7/measurements/2021sunvex/emissions/
Short summary
In urban areas, emissions from everyday products like paints, cleaners, and personal care products, along with non-traditional sources such as cooking, are increasingly important and impact air quality. This study uses a box model to evaluate how these emissions impact ozone in the Los Angeles Basin and quantifies the impact of gaseous cooking emissions. Accurate representation of these and other anthropogenic sources in inventories is crucial for informing effective air quality policies.
In urban areas, emissions from everyday products like paints, cleaners, and personal care...
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