Articles | Volume 26, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-26-3995-2026
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-26-3995-2026
Research article
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23 Mar 2026
Research article |  | 23 Mar 2026

Life–cycle impacts of South Korean air pollution on tropospheric ozone and methane: sensitivity to dispersion time

Calum Patrick Wilson and Michael John Prather

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Modelling system for computing the tropospheric O3 and CH4 perturbations from South Korean Emissions (KORUS-AQ period) C. P. Wilson https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f4qrfj78x

Modelling system for computing the tropospheric O3 and CH4 perturbations from South Korean Emissions (KORUS-AQ period) C. Wilson https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f4qrfj78x

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Air pollution impacts global warming by changing atmospheric chemistry, effectively producing ozone and destroying methane (greenhouse gases). We quantify these greenhouse gas changes with a specialized model that tracks the chemical impact of air pollutants over their lifetime. Our summertime Korean results, scaled to all air pollution, estimate that up to 30 % of tropospheric ozone production and 10 % of methane loss is caused by air pollutants, but this scaling overrates wintertime pollution.
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