Dependence of urban air pollutants on meteorology

被引:337
作者
Elminir, HK [1 ]
机构
[1] Natl Res Inst Astron & Geophys, Cairo, Egypt
关键词
aerosol; sulfur dioxide; SO2; nitrogen dioxide; NO2; particulate matter with diameter less than 10 mu m; PM10; carbon monoxide; CO and ozone O-3;
D O I
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2005.01.043
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
Dependence of air pollutants on meteorology is presented with the aim of understanding the governing processes pollutants phase interaction. Intensive measurements of particulate matter (PM10) and gaseous materials (e.g., CO, NO2, SO2, and O-3) are carried out regularly in 2002 at 14 measurement sites distributed over the whole territory of Great Cairo by the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency to assess the characteristics of air pollutants. The discussions in this work are based upon measurements performed at Abbassiya site as a case study. The nature of the contributing sources has been investigated and some attempts have been made to indicate the role played by neighboring regions in determining the air quality at the site mentioned. The results hint that, wind direction was found to have an influence not only on pollutant concentrations but also on the correlation between pollutants. As expected, the pollutants associated with traffic were at highest ambient concentration levels when wind speed was low. At higher wind speeds, dust and sand from the surrounding desert was entrained by the wind, thus contributing to ambient particulate matter levels. We also found that, the highest average concentration for NO2 and O-3 occurred at humidity <= 40% indicative for strong vertical mixing. For CO, SO2 and PM10 the highest average concentrations occurred at humidity above 80%. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V All rights reserved.
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