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Articles | Volume 25, issue 1
Articles | Volume 25, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-263-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-263-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 25, issue 1
Research article
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09 Jan 2025
Research article |  | 09 Jan 2025

Maximum ozone concentrations in the southwestern US and Texas: implications of the growing predominance of the background contribution

David D. Parrish, Ian C. Faloona, and Richard G. Derwent

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Observation-based estimates of contributions to maximum ozone (O3) concentrations show that background O3 can exceed the air quality standard of 70 ppb in the southwestern US, precluding standard attainment. Over the past 4 decades, US anthropogenic O3 has decreased by a factor of ~ 6.3, while wildfire contributions have increased, so that the background now dominates maximum concentrations, even in Los Angeles, and the occurrence of maximum O3 has shifted from the eastern to the western US.
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