Our new results in terms of the ozone-related health impacts in Europe have been published in Environmental Research Letters. In this paper, we quantifies the impact of changes in anthropogenic emissions of ozone precursors on premature deaths from long-term one exposure in Europe and the impact of emissions changes during 2005–2015 using the nested-grid chemical transport model Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS)-Chem and its adjoint. This work highlights the general trend that ozone formation becomes less sensitive to volatile organic compound emissions and more limited by the emssions of nitrogen oxides (NOx). An important policy implication of increasing marginal benefits is that more costly regulations of NOx emissions are economically justified even as total anthropogenic emission are declining.
To find out more by: Gu, Y., D. K. Henze, M. O., Nawaz, and U. J. Wagner (2023). Response of the ozone-related health burden in Europe to changes in local anthropogenic emissions of ozone precursors. Environ. Res. Lett., 18, 114034. http://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad0167