EPA data
shows ozone levels declined 18 percent between 2008 and 2013.
Not exact matches
As
shown in previous studies, the litter from the polluted site, which had endured high
levels of atmospheric nitrogen oxides and
ozone, had higher nitrogen content than litter from the clean site.
Some researchers have pinned the blame on indoor air pollution and a study last year
showed that when outdoor
ozone levels rose, the number of people inside suffering from so - called «sick building syndrome» also increased.
A new study of 60 million Americans — about 97 % of people age 65 and older in the United States —
shows that long - term exposure to airborne fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and
ozone increases the risk of premature death, even when that exposure is at
levels below the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) currently established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Shown are the 1988 - 2014trends in springtime
ozone levels on days that were very smoggy (top panel) and of average smogginess (bottom panel), from observations (left) and from a model built by the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (right).
The detailed study
shows that Americans face the risk of a 70 percent increase in unhealthy summertime
ozone levels by 2050.
However, the research also
showed that a sharp reduction in the emissions of certain pollutants would lead to dramatically decreased
levels of
ozone even as temperatures warm.
IMAGES BELOW
show a plume of elevated
ozone levels stretching from Africa to Australia.
Chemistry - transport model studies of the impact of recent changes of
ozone precursor emissions, both regionally and globally as outlined above, consistently
show that the local response of
ozone levels has been a decrease in North America and Europe and an increase in East Asia (Verstraeten et al., 2015; Zhang et al., 2016; Lin et al., 2017).
Ozone measurements from the first week of March already show a region over the North Atlantic with very low ozone levels (< 250 Dobson units, versus minimum values of ~ 300 in the early 19
Ozone measurements from the first week of March already
show a region over the North Atlantic with very low
ozone levels (< 250 Dobson units, versus minimum values of ~ 300 in the early 19
ozone levels (< 250 Dobson units, versus minimum values of ~ 300 in the early 1980s).
Besides
showing pretty views, EPIC provides scientists with metrics on climate such as cloud height, ultraviolet reflectivity, or
ozone and aerosol
levels.
Shown to be safe in the body on a cellular
level,
ozone therapy decreases inflammation.
Ozone measurements from the first week of March already show a region over the North Atlantic with very low ozone levels (< 250 Dobson units, versus minimum values of ~ 300 in the early 19
Ozone measurements from the first week of March already
show a region over the North Atlantic with very low
ozone levels (< 250 Dobson units, versus minimum values of ~ 300 in the early 19
ozone levels (< 250 Dobson units, versus minimum values of ~ 300 in the early 1980s).
In our model, Arctic
ozone depletion is greatest during the decade 2010 - 2019,
showing a delay of 10 - 15 years after the maximum stratospheric chlorine
levels are reached.
Leaving aside the generally less well constrained results using the 1901 — 2010 period that started with two anomalously cold decades, none of these
show scaling factors for «other anthropogenic» — predominantly aerosol and to a lesser extent
ozone, with minor contributions from land use and other factors — that are consistent with unity at a 95 % confidence
level.
Research led by the Universities of Leicester and Edinburgh and 12 other research institutions
show where surface
ozone levels are important for human health.
«Although stratospheric
ozone losses are expected to stabilize and eventually recover to preindustrial
levels over the course of the twenty - first century, these results
show that increasing greenhouse gases will continue to intensify the polar vortex throughout the twenty - first century, but that radiative forcing will cause widespread temperature increases over the entire Southern Hemisphere.»
Model predictions
show that
ozone levels tend to be highest in regions where crops are grown.
By 2090, as many as 2 billion people globally will be breathing air above the WHO «safe»
level; one paper last month
showed that, among other effects, a pregnant mother's exposure to
ozone raises the child's risk of autism (as much as tenfold, combined with other environmental factors).
Numerous studies
showed a link / high correlation with increases in ground
level ozone an premature death.
Solomon (1982) and others
show how this atomic oxygen is also pumped down to lower
levels to further assist
ozone production, the downward mechanism coming from eddy diffusion.
Tests in a simulated indoor environment
showed that each of the three plants helped deplete
levels of
ozone in 38 to 120 minutes.
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EPA data
shows ground -
level ozone in the U.S. dropped 18 percent between 2000 and 2013.