scholarly journals Seasonal trends of Benzo(a)pyrene in urban suspended particulate matter of Belgrade City, Serbia

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 259-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anka Cvetkovic ◽  
Milena Jovasevic-Stojanovic ◽  
Ljiljana Adjanski-Spasic ◽  
Snezana Matic-Besarabic ◽  
Dragan Markovic
Keyword(s):  
Winter Season ◽  
Monitoring Program ◽  
Monitoring Network ◽  
Ambient Air ◽  
Suspended Particles ◽  
Pollution Monitoring ◽  
Air Pollution Monitoring ◽  
National Regulation ◽  
Total Suspended Particles ◽  
Almost All

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) were identified to be one of the major toxic air pollutants in urban environment. PAHs are mostly formed during incomplete combustion or pyrolysis of organic material. According to Serbian National Legislation Benzo(a)pyrene (BaP) concentration in total suspended particles (TSP) in ambient air in Belgrade Metropolitan has been determined in the last ten years, as a part of local air pollution monitoring program performed by Public Health Institute of Belgrade and funded by Belgrade?s Municipality. Air samples for analysis of BaP in suspended particles have been collected (as 24h sample once per month) at selected monitoring sites within municipal air quality monitoring network. At the beginning, According to National Regulation, all samples were taken as total suspended particles (TSP). Since middle of 2008, the procedure of sampling methodology was harmonized with EU requirements and solid fraction PM10 has been collected and analyzed using GC/MS. In this study, we have analyzed results of TSP collected between 2005 and-2008. Looking through the results obtained during the period of whole year, it can be noticed that concentrations of BaP were much higher during winter season at almost all measuring sites.

scholarly journals DESIGN AND OPERATION OF AN AMBIENT AIR POLLUTION MONITORING NETWORK IN THE VAAL TRIANGLE AIR POLLUTION HEALTH STUDY

1992 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 9-14
Author(s):  
G.R. Tosen ◽  
A.P.S. Terblanche ◽  
L. Uys ◽  
C.R. Turner
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Meteorological Parameters ◽  
Monitoring Network ◽  
Ambient Air ◽  
Pollution Monitoring ◽  
Ambient Air Pollution ◽  
Health Study ◽  
Air Pollution Monitoring ◽  
Continuous Basis ◽  
Vaal Triangle

An extensive ambient air pollution monitoring network was designed as part of the Vaal Triangle Air Pollution Health Study (VAPS). The objective of the outdoor study is to determine air quality levels in the Vaal Triangle region. The monitoring was designed simultaneously with the health component of the VAPS. The network HUS designed according to specific criteria and has been in operation since July 1991. Six monitoring sites, which are presently in operation, were gradually phased in over the last 12 months. The pollutants which are considered as important and which are monitored in the area on a continuous basis for 365 days a year are: sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, ozone, non-methane hydrocarbons particulates and hydrogen sulphide. Meteorological parameters are also monitored. The design of the network, as well as preliminary results from two monitoring sites, will be discussed.

scholarly journals H2020 project CAPTOR dataset: raw data collected by low-cost MOX ozone sensors in a real air pollution monitoring network.

Data in Brief ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 107127
Author(s):  
Jose M. Barcelo-Ordinas ◽  
Pau Ferrer-Cid ◽  
Jorge Garcia-Vidal ◽  
Mar Viana ◽  
Ana Ripoll
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Monitoring Network ◽  
Pollution Monitoring ◽  
Raw Data ◽  
Air Pollution Monitoring

TOTAL SUSPENDED PARTICLES AND PM10 IN AMBIENT AIR IN MADRID (SPAIN)

2001 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 771-772
Author(s):  
P. SALVADOR ◽  
B. ARTIÑANO ◽  
D.G. ALONSO ◽  
X. QUEROL
Keyword(s):  
Ambient Air ◽  
Suspended Particles ◽  
Total Suspended Particles

scholarly journals A review on Assessment of Air Pollution due to Vehicular Emission in Traffic Area

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aneri A. Desai
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Ambient Air ◽  
Pollution Monitoring ◽  
Motor Vehicles ◽  
Monitoring And Control ◽  
Ambient Air Quality ◽  
Vehicular Emission ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Air Pollution Monitoring

In Indian metropolitan cities, the extensive growth of the motor vehicles has resulted in the deterioration of environmental quality and human health. The concentrations of pollutants at major traffic areas are exceeding the permissible limits. Public are facing severe respiratory diseases and other deadly cardio-vascular diseases In India. Immediate needs for vehicular air pollution monitoring and control strategies for urban cities are necessary. Vehicular emission is the main source of deteriorating the ambient air quality of major Indian cities due to rapid urbanization. Total vehicular population is increased to 15 Lacks as per recorded data of Regional Transport Organization (RTO) till 2014-2015. This study is focused on the assessment of major air pollution parameters responsible for the air pollution due to vehicular emission. The major air pollutants responsible for air pollution due to vehicular emissions are PM10, PM2.5, Sox, Nox, HC, CO2 and CO and Other meterological parameters like Ambient temperature, Humidity, Wind direction and Wind Speed. Sampling and analysis of parameters is carried out according to National Ambient Air Quality Standards Guidelines (NAAQS) (2009) and IS 5128.

A dynamic evaluation framework for ambient air pollution monitoring

2019 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. 52-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ranran Li ◽  
Yuqi Dong ◽  
Zhijie Zhu ◽  
Chen Li ◽  
Hufang Yang
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Ambient Air ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Pollution Monitoring ◽  
Ambient Air Pollution ◽  
Dynamic Evaluation ◽  
Air Pollution Monitoring

scholarly journals Discrimination in Ambient Air Pollution Monitoring?

2019 ◽  
Vol 109 ◽  
pp. 277-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corbett Grainger ◽  
Andrew Schreiber
Keyword(s):  
Air Quality ◽  
Strategic Behavior ◽  
Ambient Air ◽  
The United States ◽  
Pollution Monitoring ◽  
Ambient Air Pollution ◽  
Monitoring Networks ◽  
Ambient Air Quality ◽  
Air Pollution Monitoring ◽  
Ambient Pollution

In the United States, ambient air quality is regulated through National Ambient Air Quality standards (NAAQS). Enforcement of these standards is delegated to state and sub-state regulators who are also tasked with designing their own monitoring networks for ambient pollution. Past work has found evidence consistent with strategic behavior: local regulators strategically avoid pollution hotspots when siting monitors. This paper assesses whether income and race have historically played a role in monitor siting decisions.

The Global Environment Monitoring System (GEMS) of UNEP

1982 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. Gwynne
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Monitoring System ◽  
Monitoring Network ◽  
Pollution Monitoring ◽  
Air Pollution Monitoring ◽  
The World ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
United Nations System ◽  
Activity Centre ◽  
Nations System

The Global Environment Monitoring System (GEMS) is a collective effort of the world community to acquire, through monitoring, the data needed for rational management of the environment, and arose from recommendations of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment which was held in Stockholm in 1972. The GEMS Programme Activity Centre (PAC) at UNEP headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, coordinates all that it can of the various environmental monitoring activities which are carried on throughout the world—particularly those within the United Nations System.Great care is taken to ensure that data gathered by GEMS are of the highest attainable quality, and that data collected from different parts of a particular monitoring network are both comparable and compatible. The GEMS Programme Activity Centre (PAC), in the manner of UNEP itself, is not operational but works mainly through the intermediary of the Specialized Agencies of the United Nations System—most notably FAO, ILO, UNESCO, WHO, and WMO—together with appropriate intergovernmental organizations such as IUCN.The GEMS monitoring system consists of five closelyinterrelated programmes which have built-in provision for training and for rendering technical assistance to ensure the participation of countries that are inadequately provided with personnel and equipment. The five are:1. Climate-related monitoring;2. Monitoring of long-range transport of pollutants;3. Health-related monitoring (concerned with pollutional effects);4. Ocean monitoring; and5. Terrestrial renewable-resource monitoring.Each of these broad areas contains at least five distinct world-wide monitoring networks. Examples of these latter are the World Glacier Inventory, Background Air Pollution Monitoring Network, Urban Air Pollution Monitoring Network, Global Water Quality Monitoring Network, Tropical Forest Monitoring Network, Species Conservation Monitoring Network, etc.Monitored data are gathered at suitable coordinating centres for each network at which appropriate data-bases have been, or are being, established. Data are analyzed to produce periodic regional and global assessments which are reported at intervals that are appropriate to the variable which is being considered.

scholarly journals Treands in atmospheric turbidity over India

MAUSAM ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-190
Author(s):  
H. N. SRIVASTAVA ◽  
S. V. DATAR ◽  
B. MUKHOPADHYAY
Keyword(s):  
Monitoring Network ◽  
Volcanic Eruptions ◽  
Pollution Monitoring ◽  
Anthropogenic Sources ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Mean Values ◽  
Air Pollution Monitoring ◽  
Sources Of Pollution ◽  
Atmospheric Turbidity ◽  
Aerosol Dispersion

Annual mean values of the turbidity coefficients at Indian Background Air Pollution Monitoring Network' (BAPMoN) were compared for the periods 1973-1980and 1981-1985. It was found that there is a general increase of turbidity during the latter period at all the stations except at Kodaikanal and Pune, suggesting the effect of anthropogenic sources of pollution. Short term influence of volcanic eruptions were also discernible from the observations at Kodaikanal. Spectral analysis (FFT) at these stations brought out the predominant modes which could be explained on the basis of climatology and aerosol dispersion characteristics. The long term atmospheric turbidity observations (1973-1985) presented in this paper provide reliable data set for assessing the aerosol impact on radiation climate.  

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