A reproducible example, called a reprex would be really helpful to give a specific suggestion.
If I understand correctly, you have or can create, say, a 3x1 matrix of years,highOZ
years <- c(1,2,3)
ozone <- c(0,1,1)
m <- as.matrix(years,ozone)
m
#> [,1]
#> [1,] 1
#> [2,] 2
#> [3,] 3
mean(m)
#> [1] 2
Created on 2019-12-20 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)
The result is the mean number of years across one measuring station of ozone concentrations > 120ug/m3 (1 or TRUE). You can extend that of course to n
stations.