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Increasing springtime ozone mixing ratios in the free troposphere over western North America [1]

High concentrations of ozone in the troposphere are toxic and act as a greenhouse gas. Anthropogenic emissions of ozone precursors have caused widespread increases in ozone concentrations since the late 1800s, with the fastest-growing ozone precursor emissions currently coming out of east Asia.

Publication Date: 
21/01/2010
O. R. Cooper [2], D. D. Parrish [3], A. Stohl & et al [4]
Nature [5]
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7279
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Tags:
Air Pollution [6], Ozone [7], Atmosphere And Ozone Layer [8], Green House Gases [9], Asia [10], China [11], N C America [12], India [13]
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