How Climate-Driven Greening is Changing East Asia's Air Quality (IMAGE)

Pusan National University

How Climate-Driven Greening is Changing East Asia's Air Quality

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Satellite observations revealed major vegetation changes across East Asia between 2003 and 2024. By updating vegetation data in an atmospheric chemistry model, researchers found that climate-driven greening altered natural plant emissions, leading to changes in ozone and biogenic secondary organic aerosols. The air quality impacts varied across the region depending on the interaction between vegetation changes and nitrogen oxide availability, highlighting the importance of using up-to-date vegetation data in air quality models.

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Professor Hyo-Jung Lee and Research Professor Yu-Jin Jo from Pusan National University, Republic of Korea

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