Wenlu Wu, Tzung-May Fu, Steve R Arnold, Dominick V Spracklen, Aoxing Zhang, Wei Tao, Xiaolin Wang, Yue Hou, Jiajia Mo, Jiongkai Chen, Yumin Li, Xu Feng, Haipeng Lin, Zhijiong Huang, Junyu Zheng, Huizhong Shen, Lei Zhu, Chen Wang, Jianhuai Ye, Xin Yang
The evaporative emissions of anthropogenic volatile organic compounds (AVOCs) are sensitive to ambient temperature. This sensitivity forms an air pollution-meteorology connection that has not been assessed on a regional scale. We parametrized the temperature dependence of evaporative AVOC fluxes in a regional air quality model and evaluated the impacts on surface ozone in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH) area of China during the summer of 2017. The temperature dependency of AVOC emissions drove an enhanced simulated ozone-temperature sensitivity of 1...
March 12, 2024: Environmental Science & Technology