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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">EGUsphere</journal-id>
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<journal-title>EGUsphere</journal-title>
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<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/egusphere-2026-4387</article-id>
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<article-title>Impacts of ozone-vegetation feedbacks on surface ozone in a coupled climate-chemistry-ecosystem model</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Zhao</surname>
<given-names>Yuan</given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Fu</surname>
<given-names>Weijie</given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Tian</surname>
<given-names>Chenguang</given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Huang</surname>
<given-names>Jingchao</given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Hu</surname>
<given-names>Yihan</given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Yue</surname>
<given-names>Xu</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8861-8192</ext-link>
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<addr-line>State Key Laboratory of Climate System Prediction and Risk Management (CPRM), Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Atmospheric Environment and Equipment Technology, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science &amp; Technology (NUIST), Nanjing, 210044, China</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>17</day>
<month>08</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>2026</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>26</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Yuan Zhao et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<p>Surface ozone (O&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt;) is strongly influenced by interactions between atmospheric chemistry and terrestrial ecosystems, yet these feedbacks remain insufficiently represented in Earth system models. Here, we develop a fully coupled O&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt;-vegetation interaction framework by integrating the terrestrial ecosystem model iMAPLE into the ECHAM-HAMMOZ Earth system model. The coupled model explicitly represents three major land-atmosphere interaction pathways, including dynamic biogenic volatile organic compound (BVOC) emissions, vegetation-mediated O&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt; dry deposition, and O&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt;-induced vegetation damage. These feedback pathways exert heterogeneous impacts on surface O&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt; concentrations due to spatial variations in vegetation characteristics and nonlinear chemical sensitivities. Changes in monoterpene emissions cause the largest global effect with widespread reductions in surface O&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt;, whereas isoprene-driven responses vary among regions with different chemical sensitivities. In regions with high anthropogenic emissions, such as East Asia, vegetation-mediated changes in BVOCs and dry deposition substantially amplify O&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt; responses. The O&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt;-induced vegetation damage further modifies atmospheric chemistry by reducing BVOC emissions through leaf area loss while increasing surface O&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt; by inhibiting stomatal conductance. Incorporating these processes decreases simulated global surface O&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt; concentrations and alleviates the positive bias in the original model, particularly over China (relative mean bias decreases from 31.5 % to 29.7 %) and the U.S. (from 19.0 % to 7.8 %). These results demonstrate that interactive O&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt;-vegetation feedbacks are essential for improving the representation of atmospheric composition and ecosystem&amp;ndash;atmosphere interactions in Earth system models.</p>
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