Not exact matches
The TOAR database of surface
ozone metrics is now publicly available and can be used by scientists and policymakers around the world to quantify the impacts of
ozone on human
health and vegetation.
How can the atmospheric sciences community facilitate access to
ozone metrics necessary for quantifying the impact of tropospheric
ozone on human
health, crop and ecosystem productivity and climate?
The full set of
health metrics have been detailed in TOAR -
Metrics, and are organised according to the range of the
ozone distribution to which they correspond, specifically: high
ozone concentrations, high and mid-level
ozone concentrations and
ozone concentrations from across the distribution.
As noted above, the first three
metrics are associated with regulatory standards in different world regions for the protection of human
health to acute or short - term exposure to
ozone.
This outcome is important to researchers as well as policymakers and regulators, who use exposure
metrics to assess how changes in
ozone levels affect human
health, vegetation, and climate.