Episodic High Surface Ozone in Central Japan in Warm Season: Relative Importance of Local Production and Long Range Transport

Abstract

Because of rapidly growing emission sources of photochemical smog precursors in continental countries in East Asia, people are concerned about possible strong contribution of long range transport to episodic high ozone in Japan. This study evaluates relative importance of the long range transport and local production to the episodic high surface ozone in Central Japan by using high resolution chemical transport calculation with 1 km horizontal grid. Source: BIOSIS