Modeling Ozone Concentrations Using Meteorological Variables

Abstract

Concern has been expressed in recent years concerning damage to vegetation, decline of forest growth, and human health problems that have been associated with tropospheric ozone. Because of this concern, it is important to have good estimates of ozone concentrations over wide geographic areas. Direct analysis for ozone is expensive, but meteorological data is low cost and universally available from local airports. It is therefore attractive to attempt to estimate ozone concentrations by means of these weather data in western North Carolina.