Articles | Volume 12, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-955-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-955-2019
Methods for assessment of models
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12 Mar 2019
Methods for assessment of models |  | 12 Mar 2019

A new method (M3Fusion v1) for combining observations and multiple model output for an improved estimate of the global surface ozone distribution

Kai-Lan Chang, Owen R. Cooper, J. Jason West, Marc L. Serre, Martin G. Schultz, Meiyun Lin, Virginie Marécal, Béatrice Josse, Makoto Deushi, Kengo Sudo, Junhua Liu, and Christoph A. Keller

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We developed a new method for combining surface ozone observations from thousands of monitoring sites worldwide with the output from multiple atmospheric chemistry models. The result is a global surface ozone distribution with greater accuracy than any single model can achieve. We focused on an ozone metric relevant to human mortality caused by long-term ozone exposure. Our method can be applied to studies that quantify the impacts of ozone on human health and mortality.