Ambient Air Quality & Ozone Injury

The Expert Panel on Ambient Air Quality and Ozone Injury has the task to further develop the harmonised monitoring methods in the field of ambient air quality and ozone visible injury assessment as laid down in the ICP Forests Manual. It cooperates with the Programme Co-ordinating Centre and the data centres in order to contribute to the data evaluation and quality assurance.

The aim of the Expert Panel is to investigate temporal and spatial trends. Members of the Expert Panel evaluate different pollutants (especially tropospheric ozone) exposures from passive samplers and real-time monitor (see ICP Forests Manual part XV) and tropospheric ozone effects in terms of ozone visible symptoms (see ICP Forests Manual Part VIII).