Poor air quality can sneak up fast on hot days. Here’s what causes it, what to watch for, and how to protect your health, and ...

More information: Jian Xu et al, Remote Sensing of Tropospheric Ozone from Space: Progress and Challenges, Journal of Remote Sensing (2024). DOI: 10.34133/remotesensing.0178 ...

Super pollutants are extremely potent climate pollutants. They include short-lived pollutants like methane, black carbon and tropospheric ozone. Super pollutants are responsible for about 45% of ...

Scientists confirmed that much of ozone's increase in the upper troposphere is likely due to humans. A team detected a clear signal of human influence on upper tropospheric ozone trends in a 17 ...

Ground-level, or tropospheric, ozone forms when methane, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide and volatile organic compounds react with sunlight. With Earth warming due to human-driven climate change ...

A novel inversion method to retrieve tropospheric ozone using ground-based DOAS measurements Peer-Reviewed Publication Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

Stratospheric ozone depletion and tropospheric ozone increases drive Southern Ocean interior warming. Nature Climate Change, 2022; 12 (4): 365 DOI: 10.1038/s41558-022-01320-w ...

Ground-level ozone, also called tropospheric ozone, is a common air pollutant that can be harmful to human health. The pollutant forms when certain organic compounds interact with sunlight and ...

Credit: Sumaira Abdulali/CC BY 4.0 A long-term study in India using satellite and ground-based data has revealed increasing trends in tropospheric or ground-level ozone, a major component of smog 1.

Ground-level ozone is a common air pollutant that can be harmful to human health. The pollutant forms when certain organic compounds interact with sunlight and intense heat. Between May and ...