Orange trees are widely cultivated in regions with high concentrations of tropospheric ozone. Citrus absorb ozone through their stomata and emit volatile organic compounds (VOC), which, together with soil emissions of NO, contribute to non-stomatal ozone removal. In a Valencia orange orchard in Exeter, California, we used fast sensors and eddy covariance to characterize water and ozone fluxes. ...

Ozone concentration and ecosystem scale fluxes were measured continuously from June 1999 to June 2000 above a ponderosa pine plantation at Blodgett Forest, an Ameriflux site located B75 km northeast of Sacramento, CA (1300m). The ponderosa pine trees were most active during the summer but maintained a low level of activity during the fall, winter, and spring. Cumulative ozone flux for the year ...

ozone is a strong oxidant and a potent disinfecting agent. there are numerous application areas of ozone in food industry. while there are many investigations on the application of ozone in food industry, relatively little information is available on the potential of ozone to reduce microbial populations in fresh-cut fruits and vegetables and the visual quality of lettuce. in this study, ozone ...

[1] Interannual anomalies in vertical profiles of stratospheric ozone, in both equatorial and extratropical regions, have been shown to exhibit a strong seasonal persistence, namely, extended temporal autocorrelations during certain times of the calendar year. Here we investigate the relationship between this seasonal persistence of equatorial and extratropical ozone anomalies using the SAGE‐co...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 85 1.1 Introduction 87 1.1.1 Purpose and scope of this chapter 87 1.1.2 Ozone in the atmosphere and its role in climate 87 1.1.3 Chapter outline 93 1.2 Observed changes in the stratosphere 93 1.2.1 Observed changes in stratospheric ozone 93 1.2.2 Observed changes in ODSs 96 1.2.3 Observed changes in stratospheric aerosols, water vapour, methane and nitrous oxide 96 1.2.4 Obser...

OBJECTIVE The associations between ozone concentrations measured outdoors and both morbidity and mortality may be partially due to indoor exposures to ozone and ozone-initiated oxidation products. In this article I examine the contributions of such indoor exposures to overall ozone-related health effects by extensive review of the literature as well as further analyses of published data. FIND...

In this work, we report results of calculations based on the density functional theory of different species metal-ozone, containing mercury, silver and gold. The chosen species range from small molecules and large transition-metal containing ozone with mercury, silver and gold complexes. A comparative analysis of the description of the metal-oxygen bond obtained by different methodologies is pr...

We report observations from space using ultraviolet (UV) radiance for significant enhancement of ozone in the lower troposphere over central and eastern China (CEC). The recent retrieval products of the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) onboard the Earth Observing System (EOS) Aura satellite revealed the spatial and temporal variation of ozone distributions in multiple layers in the troposphere...

Hydrocarbon Processing Industries (HPIs) emit large amounts of highly reactive hydrocarbons and Nitrogen Oxides to the atmosphere. Such simultaneous emissions of ozone precursors result in rapid and high yields ozone (O3) formation downwind. The climate of the Middle East has been shown to be favorable for O3 formation in summer. There are also vast activities in processing oil and gas in this ...