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Were Wildfires Responsible for the Unusually High Surface Ozone in Colorado During 2021?
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2023
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Source: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128(12)
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Journal Title:Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
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Description:Ground-level ozone (O3) was unusually high in northern Colorado in the summer of 2021 with maximum daily 8-hr average (MDA8) concentrations 6 to 8 parts-per-billion by volume (ppbv) higher than in 2019, 2020, or 2022. One or more of the monitors on the Colorado Front Range exceeded the 2015 U.S. National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) of 70 ppbv on 66 of the 122 days from 1 June to 30 September, and this record number of exceedances coincided with the near daily presence of dispersed smoke haze from wildfires in Arizona, California, and the Pacific Northwest. In this paper, we use regulatory and non-regulatory surface O3 and PM2.5 measurements in conjunction with ground-based lidar observations to
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Source:Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128(12)
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ISSN:2169-897X;2169-8996;
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Rights Information:CC BY-NC-ND
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