ETC/ACM Report 15/2018: Long-term evolution of the impacts of ozone air pollution on agricultural yields in Europe Eionet Report

A modelling analysis for the 1990 — 2010 period

Substantial decrease of exposure is found on average over Europe, leading to wheat crop yield losses being reduced from 18.2 % to 10.2 % between 1990 and 2010 according to AOT40 trends. However, because of compensation between opposite trends for ozone peaks and ozone background, but also because of trends in other environmental factors, the actual ozone dose does not change significantly. So that wheat crop yield losses derived with the POD metric are estimated to 14.9 % and 13.3 % in 1990 and 2010, respectively.

Prepared by: ETC/ACM Consortium partner members A.Colette, F. Tognet, L. Létinois, V. Lemaire, F. Couvidat ¹; R. Alonso Del Amo, I. Gonzalez Fernandez, I. Rábago Juan-Aracil ²; H. Harmens ³; C. Andersson ⁴; A. Manders ⁵; M. Mircea ⁶; S. Tsyro ⁷;
¹ Institut National de l'Environnement Industriel et des Risques (INERIS, France); ² Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT, Spain); ³ Centre For Ecology & Hydrology (CEH, United Kingdom); ⁴ Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute Norrköping (SMHI, Sweden); ⁵ Netherlands Institute for Applied Scientific Research (TNO, Netherlands); ⁶ National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA, Italy); ⁷ Norwegian Meteorological Institute, (Met, Norway);

Published by: ETC/ACM, November 2018, 42 pp.