Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume 8, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/4/044011
Keywords
tropospheric ozone; Asian monsoon; climatology; interannual variability
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation in China [D0512/41075101]
- National Key Basic Research Program ('973 project) [2010CB950700]
- ESA-MOST Dragon III Project [10455]
- Jiangsu Provincial 2011 Program
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The impact of the East Asian monsoon (EAM) on climatology and interannual variability of tropospheric ozone (O-3) over the coastal South China was investigated by analyzing 11 years of ozonesonde data over Hong Kong with the aid of Lagrangian dispersion modeling of carbon monoxide and calculation of an EAM index. It was found that the seasonal cycle of O-3 in the lower troposphere is highly related to the EAM over the study region. Ozone enhancements in the free troposphere are associated with the monsoon-induced transport of pollutants of continental anthropogenic and biomass burning origins. Lower tropospheric O-3 levels showed high interannual variability, with an annual averaged amplitude up to 61% of averaged concentrations in the boundary layer (0-1 km altitudes) and 49% below 3 km altitude. In spring and autumn, the interannual variability in boundary layer O-3 levels was predominately influenced by the EAM intensity, with high O-3 mixing ratios associated with northeasterly circulation anomalies.
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