Ozone precursor emissions and meteorological conditions have large impact on ozone concentrations. In this research, Data referring to an approximately 14-year period (1996~ 2009) are analyzed in order to estimate the trend of the daily maximum hourly value of ozone concentration at national capital region. A Kolmogorov-Zurbenko (KZ) filter is applied to remove the short-term component from the raw time series of ozone and meteorological variables. Meteorological effects are removed from filtered ozone series using multiple linear regression based on meteorological variables. The results show significant differences in local ozone concentrations. Especially, Ulsan area shows continuously increasing trend in ozone concentrations.

This study was performed to assess the level of ozone risk for wheat and potato in the central region of the Korean Peninsula by using ozone indices, the ozone-concentration based index (AOT40). The AOT40 indices were calculated for wheat and potato, respectively, at 25 sites in the central region of the Korean Peninsula during a period of three months from April 1 to June 30, 2006. The results for both indices, AOT40, showed that agricultural crops could be seriously damaged by ozone in the central region of the Korean Peninsula. In the result of AOT40, ozone may affect about 60% of the sites for wheat and 20% of the 25 sites for potato.