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Mapping ozone source-receptor relationship and apportioning the health impact in the Pearl River Delta region using adjoint sensitivity analysis.

ABSTRACT: While fine particulate matters are decreasing in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region, the regional ozone (O₃) shows an increasing trend that affects human health, leading to an urgent need for scientific understanding of source-receptor relationship between O₃ and its precursor emissions given the changing background composition. We advanced and applied an adjoint air quality model to map contributions of individual O₃ precursor emission sources [nitrogen oxides (NO_x) and volatile organic compound (VOC)] at each location to annual regional O₃ concentrations and to identify the possible dominant influential pathways of emission sources to O₃ at different spatiotemporal scales. Additionally, we introduced the novel adjoint sensitivity approach to assess the relationship between precursor emissions and O₃-induced premature mortality. Adjoint results show that Shenzhen was a major source contributor to regional O₃ throughout all seasons, of which 49.4% (3.8%) were from its NO_x (VOC) emissions. Local emissions (within PRD) contributed to 83% of the regional O₃ whereas only ~54% of the estimated ~4000 regional O₃-induced premature mortalities. The discrepancy between these two contributions was because O₃-induced mortalities are dependent on not only O₃ concentration, but incident rate and population density. We also found that a city with low O₃-induced mortalities could have significant emission contributions to health impact in the region since the transport pathways could be through transport of local O₃ or through transport of O₃ precursors that form regional O₃ thereafter. It is therefore necessary to formulate emission control policies from both air quality and public health perspectives, and it is also critical to have better understanding of influential pathways of emission sources to O₃.

SUBMITTER: Wang MY

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7252566 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Mapping ozone source-receptor relationship and apportioning the health impact in the Pearl River Delta region using adjoint sensitivity analysis.

Wang M Y MY Yim Steve H L SHL Dong G H GH Ho K F KF Wong D C DC

Atmospheric environment (Oxford, England : 1994) 20200201

While fine particulate matters are decreasing in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region, the regional ozone (O3) shows an increasing trend that affects human health, leading to an urgent need for scientific understanding of source-receptor relationship between O3 and its precursor emissions given the changing background composition. We advanced and applied an adjoint air quality model to map contributions of individual O3 precursor emission sources [nitrogen oxides ( ...[more]

PMID: 32461735

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Mapping ozone source-receptor relationship and apportioning the health impact in the Pearl River Delta region using adjoint sensitivity analysis.

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Mapping ozone source-receptor relationship and apportioning the health impact in the Pearl River Delta region using adjoint sensitivity analysis.

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