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Testing approaches for calculating stomatal ozone fluxes from passive samplers

TitleTesting approaches for calculating stomatal ozone fluxes from passive samplers
Publication TypeArticolo su Rivista peer-reviewed
Year of Publication2016
AuthorsCalatayud, V., Diéguez J.J., Sicard P., Schaub M., and De Marco Alessandra
JournalScience of the Total Environment
Volume572
Pagination56-67
ISSN00489697
KeywordsAir quality, Errors, Flux calculations, Importance sampling, Meteorological data, Meteorology, Ozone, Ozone flux, Ozone risk assessment, Passive samplers, Phytotoxic ozone dose, Risk assessment, Risk assessment tool, Risk perception, Stomatal ozone fluxes
Abstract

Current ozone (O3) levels are high enough to negatively affect vegetation and may become worse in the future. Ozone risk assessments have recently shifted from exposure-based to flux-based metrics. Modeling stomatal O3 fluxes requires hourly O3 and meteorological data, which are not always available. Large datasets of O3 concentrations measured with passive samplers exist worldwide, and usually provide weekly to monthly means. We tested the suitability of using aggregated data instead of hourly data for O3 flux calculations with 3-year time series of O3 data from 24 Spanish air quality stations. Five different approaches and three different parameterizations were tested. Ozone-averaged values in combination with hourly meteorological data provided the most robust estimates of accumulated O3 fluxes (Phytotoxic Ozone Dose with no threshold, POD0), and the median of the absolute percent error (MAPE) due to aggregation came close to 5%. Aggregations from 1 week to 1 month yielded similar errors, which is important in the cost-efficiency terms of the chosen passive sampler exposure periodicity. One major limitation of these approaches is that they are not suitable for high POD thresholds, and that accuracy of the measurements with passive samplers has to be strictly assured in order to finally obtain acceptable errors. A combination of meteorological data and O3 passive sampler measurements may be used to estimate O3 fluxes at remote forest sites as a valuable risk assessment tool. © 2016

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DOI10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.07.155
Citation KeyCalatayud201656