Title of Dissertation: A STUDY OF GROUND-LEVEL OZONE OVER THE BALTIMORE/WASHINGTON OZONE NONATTAINMENT AREA Yu-Jin Choi, Doctor of Philosophy, 2004 Dissertation directed by: Associate Professor Sheryl H. Ehrman Professor Richard V. Calabrese Department of Chemical Engineering Professor Russell R. Dickerson Department of Meteorology Surface ozone is a persistent problem in U.S.A. and Europe as w...

[1] In this paper we present validation results of the total ozone column data products of the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on board the NASA EOS-AURA satellite through comparisons with ground-based observations by Dobson and Brewer spectrophotometer instruments. Quality-controlled and archived total ozone column data from these ground-based instruments located at stations worldwide have b...

This paper presents a study of societal costs related to public health due to the degradation of air quality and the lack of physical activity, both affected by our built environment. The paper further shows road safety as another public health concern. Traffic fatalities are the number one cause of death in the world. Traffic accidents result in huge financial loss to the people involved and t...

The purpose of this paper is to identify the atmospheric conditions associated with elevated ground-level ozone concentrations during June–August of 2000–2007 at 11 ozone-monitoring stations in the Atlanta, GA, USA metropolitan statistical area (MSA). Analyses were confined to high-ozone days (HODs), which had a daily maximum 8-h average ozone concentration in the 95th percentile of all June–Au...