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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Sep 19.
Published in final edited form as: Atmos Pollut Res. 2017 Mar;8(2):275–284. doi: 10.1016/j.apr.2016.09.005

Table 3.

Temporal trends in ozone and emissions (1990 – 2010): percent of model grid cells in a given region with trends significant at the 95% level (see Table 1 for definitions of the emission acronyms).

region: NE MA MW S W NW WC SW
emission + + + + + + + +
O3 0 56 0 87 0 35 0 35 4 0 11 3 5 0 2 2
VNR 30 3 71 0 29 19 46 3 22 4 40 0 23 2 53 2
VNE 5 83 2 86 6 84 7 79 24 55 19 50 10 73 20 69
VEG 18 40 40 2 26 14 46 9 27 25 67 22 39 7 47 13
VAR 0 97 0 96 3 95 0 83 2 24 0 38 15 27 10 33
VMO 0 100 0 100 0 100 0 100 0 100 0 100 0 100 0 98
VBI 1 0 0 0 17 0 1 0 76 0 0 3 47 0 19 0
NNR 0 84 0 89 1 91 0 91 2 88 0 91 2 86 2 88
NNE 8 67 9 60 13 52 12 65 36 34 15 40 5 53 25 58
NEG 7 73 12 47 14 49 16 40 19 35 25 25 0 67 15 44
NAR 26 50 33 42 48 26 45 24 39 1 20 11 39 15 57 1
NMO 0 100 0 99 0 100 96 0 100 0 100 0 99 3 97
NBI 2 0 0 11 5 2 4 3 45 1 0 3 38 0 19 0

+ uptrend, − downtrend

Blue: downtrends > 24%; red: uptrends > 24%