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Analysts1 a the observed tropospheric ozone distribution has revealed that concentrations in the Northern Hemisphere were heger titan in the Southern Hemisphere. This finding and the earlier identification of the necessary photochemical reaction scheme2 has led Fishman and Crutzen1 to suggest that an appreciably larger in situ photochemical source of tropospheric ozone may exist in the Northern Hemisphere than in the Southern Hemisphere and to speculate that anthropogenic activity might he responsible for a considerable fraction of the heger ozone concentrations in the Northern Hemisphere. In the present study, we examine the influence of tropospheric ozone on climate. Ozone is an optically active gas, which absorbs and emite terrestrial IR radiation in the 8–10-μm region and absorbs solar radiation in the UV and visible. Hence, a change in ozone concentrations will perturb the radiative energy budget of the Earth–atmosphere system which may in turn perturb the climate.
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Fishman, J., Ramanathan, V., Crutzen, P. et al. Tropospheric ozone and climate. Nature 282, 818–820 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1038/282818a0
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