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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-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/egusphere-2026-6493</article-id>
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<article-title>Resolving the complex responses of ozone transport and chemistry to typhoons in South China: Insights from process-level analysis</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Qu</surname>
<given-names>Kun</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9760-2299</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
</xref>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Wang</surname>
<given-names>Xuesong</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>1</sup>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Yan</surname>
<given-names>Yu</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
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<sup>4</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Jin</surname>
<given-names>Xipeng</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff5">
<sup>5</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Cai</surname>
<given-names>Xuhui</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Shen</surname>
<given-names>Jin</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>6</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Xiao</surname>
<given-names>Teng</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Jiang</surname>
<given-names>Meiqing</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Tan</surname>
<given-names>Zhaofeng</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3808-1964</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Ma</surname>
<given-names>Xuefei</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8200-4675</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Lu</surname>
<given-names>Keding</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9425-9520</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Dai</surname>
<given-names>Jianing</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
</xref>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff7">
<sup>7</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Vrekoussis</surname>
<given-names>Mihalis</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8292-8352</ext-link>
</name>
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<sup>2</sup>
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<sup>8</sup>
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<sup>9</sup>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Kanakidou</surname>
<given-names>Maria</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1724-9692</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
</xref>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff10">
<sup>10</sup>
</xref>
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<sup>11</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Brasseur</surname>
<given-names>Guy P.</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6794-9497</ext-link>
</name>
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<sup>3</sup>
</xref>
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<sup>7</sup>
</xref>
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<sup>12</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Daskalakis</surname>
<given-names>Nikos</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2409-0392</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Zeng</surname>
<given-names>Limin</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Zhang</surname>
<given-names>Yuanhang</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>1</sup>
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</contrib>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>State Key Laboratory of Regional Environment and Sustainability, International Joint Research Center for Atmospheric Research (IJRC), College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Institute of Environmental Physics (IUP-UB), University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany</addr-line>
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<label>3</label>
<addr-line>Environmental Modeling Group, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff4">
<label>4</label>
<addr-line>Sichuan Academy of Environmental Policy and Planning, Chengdu 610041, China</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff5">
<label>5</label>
<addr-line>Collaborative Innovation Center of Atmospheric Environment and Equipment Technology, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Environment Monitoring and Pollution Control, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science &amp; Technology, Nanjing 210044, China</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff6">
<label>6</label>
<addr-line>State Key Laboratory of Regional Air Quality Monitoring, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Secondary Air Pollution Research, Guangdong Environmental Monitoring Center, Guangzhou 510308, China</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff7">
<label>7</label>
<addr-line>Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR 999077, China</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff8">
<label>8</label>
<addr-line>Center of Marine Environmental Science (MARUM), University of Bremen, Germany</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff9">
<label>9</label>
<addr-line>Climate and Atmosphere Research Center (CARE-C), The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff10">
<label>10</label>
<addr-line>Environmental Chemical Processes Laboratory (ECPL), Department of Chemistry, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff11">
<label>11</label>
<addr-line>Center of Studies of Air quality and Climate Change, Institute for Chemical Engineering Sciences, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Patras, Greece</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff12">
<label>12</label>
<addr-line>Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA</addr-line>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>29</day>
<month>10</month>
<year>2026</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>2026</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>37</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Kun Qu et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<abstract>
<p>Typhoons are major synoptic systems linked to ozone (O&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt;) pollution in the Pearl River Delta, South China, particularly in autumn and summer. Although previous studies have identified various mechanisms of typhoon-induced O&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt; pollution, analyses of meteorological conditions or overall process contributions alone do not fully explain how typhoons affect O&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt; pollution through specific atmospheric processes, particularly transport and chemistry. Here, we combine O&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt; mass budget analysis, source apportionment, precursor-transport sensitivity simulations and chemical diagnostics based on WRF-CMAQ models to investigate the responses of these processes to typhoons in autumn and summer. Typhoons enhance O&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt; transport through both vertical exchange and horizontal transport, with increased transport of O&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt; derived from upwind emissions in both seasons and background O&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt; mainly in autumn. Transported precursors also contribute considerably to local O&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt; pollution (&amp;gt;10 &amp;micro;g m&lt;sup&gt;-3&lt;/sup&gt;), which is further enhanced under typhoon influence, primarily driven by increased contributions from acyl peroxy nitrates (APNs) and NO&lt;sub&gt;x&lt;/sub&gt;. Local photochemistry exhibits more complex responses: typhoons accelerate O&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt; production in autumn but suppress it in summer, reduce HO&lt;sub&gt;x&lt;/sub&gt; cycling efficiency while enhancing O&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt; production efficiency, alter VOC contributions to OH reactivity, and generally shift O&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt; production toward more NO&lt;sub&gt;x&lt;/sub&gt;-limited conditions. These findings reveal that typhoons influence regional O&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt; pollution through multiple transport pathways, transported precursor contributions and different aspects of photochemistry, providing further process-level evidence for understanding the mechanisms underlying typhoon-induced O&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt; pollution.</p>
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<award-id>2018YFC0213204</award-id>
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