Articles | Volume 25, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-5101-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-5101-2025
Research article
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19 May 2025
Research article |  | 19 May 2025

Surface ozone trend variability across the United States and the impact of heat waves (1990–2023)

Kai-Lan Chang, Brian C. McDonald, Colin Harkins, and Owen R. Cooper

Data sets

Air Quality System Data Mart US EPA https://www.epa.gov/outdoor-air-quality-data

Air Pollutant Emissions Trends Data US EPA https://www.epa.gov/air-emissions-inventories/air-pollutant-emissions-trends-data

CPC Global Unified Temperature NOAA PSL https://psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/data.cpc.globaltemp.html

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Exposure to high levels of ozone can be harmful to human health. This study shows consistent and robust evidence of decreasing ozone extremes across much of the United States over the period from 1990 to 2023, previously attributed to ozone precursor emission controls. Nevertheless, we also show that the increasing heat wave frequencies are likely to contribute to additional ozone exceedances, slowing the progress of decreasing the frequency of ozone exceedances.
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