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Ground-level ozone is a secondary air pollutant and is photochemically produced by solar radiation from the reaction of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and nitrogen oxides (NOx). Ground-level ozone is considered a harmful pollutant due to its adverse impact on human health, agricultural crops and materials. The concerning factor is that in spite of decreasing trends in some other air pollutants (e.g. NOx), ozone concentrations are still increasing. This paper describes the temporal variations of ozone at four air quality monitoring sites (Harwell, Leeds, Marylebone and Strath Vaich) in the United Kingdom for the year of 2008. The association of ozone with some traffi c-related air pollutants has been explored applying a quantile regression model (QRM). The traffi c-related air pollutants considered as predictors for this study are hydrocarbons (HC), nitric oxides (NO), nitrogen dioxides (NO 2 ), carbon monoxides (CO) and particulate matter (PM 2.5 ). QRM can handle the non-linearities in the relationship of ozone and its predictors and is applicable to non-normal air quality data distribution. The behaviour and interaction of ozone with its predictors vary at different regimes of ozone distributions, which remains hidden when applying an ordinary least square regression model. QRM explains signifi cantly more variations in ozone concentrations (global goodness of fi 1 = 0.88) as compared to ordinary least square regression (coeffi cient of determination R 2 = 0.32) and is therefore better suited for ozone data analysis and prediction.

international journal of sustainable development and planning

Characterising the temporal variations of ground-level ozone and its relationship with traffic-related air pollutants in the united kingdom: a quantile regression approach