Brazil and during the maize growing season in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo (DRC) also elevated in both futures (Figs. 1c
and 2c). As noted in our companion paper, O3 exposure during the
soybean and maize growing seasons is particularly elevated in the
Northern Hemisphere due to the coincidence of these crops’
growing seasons with peak summer O3 concentrations, while the
wheat and maize growing seasons in Brazil and the DRC, respectively,
coincide with these nations’ biomass burning seasons