Air Pollution - Science topic

We had a comparison between the portable and stationary instruments related to particulate matter measuring.

The difference was significant about pm2.5.

Does anyone know what is the reason?

I am actively seeking an opportunity to contribute a chapter entitled "Environmental Health Hazards Attributed to Deteriorated Indoor Air Quality Caused by Inferior Construction Practices" to an edited book focused on the critical subject of air quality. If you are involved in such a project and seeking contributions, please feel free to comment below with your email contact for further discussions. Your collaboration and insights would be greatly appreciated.

Every war and every battle has a long-term effect on the quality of life we live, the quality of air we breathe, and on the sustainability of our natural ecosystem.

So there a time has to come when we will reach a critical point of sustenance, post which any further war will bring catastrophe for every living soul.

So what's you opinion on how far we are from this point of no return?

AI-based methods for air quality monitoring involve the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning techniques to assess, predict, and manage air quality. While Traditional-based methods for air quality monitoring have been used for many years and provide valuable insights into air quality. Provide your input for this question

Dusty roads, pot holes, uneven roads, disorder in road usage, ignoring road signs, traffic lights, uncontrolled hooting, air pollution,growing numbers of motorbikes in cities, high number of road accidents. The list of challenges facing African roads are endless, yet all seems normal.

Why is convection important for the formation of a thunderstorm and how does the convection current help with air pollution?

Are there any standards/ limits for respiratory deposition dose like this much microgram of Pm 2.5 is applicable for 1 hr exposure/ if any....I read many papers but I couldn't find it...Kindly help me to know about this.

My air quality data is in kg/m^2. I need this in kg/m^3

Is air pollution caused when harmful gases & chemicals are released into air & air pollution through chemicals released into environment when fuel is burned?

How renewable energy is used to maintain air quality and what is the best renewable energy source and why?

What form of pollution involves the release of chemicals into the atmosphere and how energy efficiency can reduce air pollution?

Dear Scholars,

Assume a mobile air pollution monitoring strategy using a network of sensors that move around the city, specifically a network of sensors that quantify PM2.5 at a height of 1.5 meters that lasts about 20 minutes. Clearly, using this strategy we would lose temporal resolution to gain spatial resolution.

If we would like to perform spatial interpolation to "fill" the empty spaces, what would you recommend? What do you think about it? What would be your approximations?

Regards

A key premise for formulating such questions is the adage that a drop beats a rock. Often, when we wonder whether to choose a bicycle instead of an internal combustion car as a means of transportation in a situation of driving to a nearby store, the answer appears that, after all, with this one gesture, this action performed only by us in a situation where many other people, including neighbors, friends, etc. do not do it, we ourselves will not save the climate and the biosphere. But, after all, this is what many people think. And each individual, if this thinking would change and replace the car with a bicycle then one drop will turn into thousands and then into millions of drops, into rain, into a river and large-scale changes will be realized. The same applies, for example, to the issue of segregating waste, to the use of pesticides in the home garden, to the creation of a flower meadow instead of mowing the lawn, to changing consumption habits to more prudent and sustainable ones, on the reuse of used products and recyclables in the sharing economy, etc. Of course, green financial subsidies, regulatory change are key instruments to motivate this kind of change, to systemically address the issue of smoothly carrying out the green transformation of the economy to build a sustainable, zero-carbon, green closed-loop economy. However, the adage that a drop drills the scale is valid. In this regard, it is particularly important to change the consciousness and mentality of individual people individually and, at the same time, of many people in society.

In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:

And what is your opinion about it?

What is your opinion on this topic?

Please answer,

I invite you all to join the discussion,

Thank you very much,

Warm regards,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

What is the impact of the climate changes of the living organisms and relationship between humidity and air quality?

On February 14, 2023, the European Parliament, in a tight vote (340 votes for, 279 against, and 21 abstentions) decided to only authorize, from 2035, the sale of vehicles emitting no CO2. In other words: ban on the sale of new vehicles equipped with combustion engines, hybrids, plug-in hybrids, or others; paving the way for 100% electric cars. However, for various reasons, industrial, technological, economic and even environmental, specialists and professionals openly criticize the new regulations the European Union wants to impose. The most virulent criticism comes from the manufacturers, as evidenced by the positions taken by their managers, such as Carlos Tavares, CEO of Stellantis, Olivier Zipse, CEO of BMW, and Luca de Meo, CEO of Renault, who find neither more nor less, that "the electric car imposed by law is not the solution".

May this discussion lift the veil on the technological, economic, and environmental issues of this European paradigm shift, and at the same time emphasize its implications on a global scale.

In 2022, the scale of sales of heat pumps in Poland increased by approximately 100 per cent compared to the previous year. This was due to the energy crisis generated by the slowing down of the development of renewable and emission-free energy sources by the PIS party currently in power over the past eight years and the promotion of energy development based mainly on burning combustible fuels, mainly coal and lignite. As a result, three quarters of Poland's electricity generation and even more of its heat generation is still based on burning coal. As a result, when the price of fossil fuels rose sharply between 2021 and 2022, the cost of living for many citizens increased by several tens of percent. The solution to the problem of rising heating and energy costs was to install heat pumps powered by electricity from photovoltaic panels installed on the roof or next to the house, or other renewable energy sources. However, these other alternative renewable and emission-free energy sources are few and far between due to energy policy. In order to increase the energy savings of their homes, many citizens would like to insulate their homes by renovating and adding insulation to the facades of their buildings. It is estimated that over 4 million residential homes in Poland lack thermal insulation. However, this is unfortunately not possible due to the overly limited financial programmes of non-refundable subsidies with which such investment projects could be financed. Many citizens, despite the fact that they would like, for example, to power heat pumps with electricity from a wind turbine, a windmill erected close to their home, have not had this opportunity because in 2016 the PIS government blocked the development of wind energy in Poland by passing the so-called 10h Law. Similarly, in April 2022, a change in the regulation of billing for photovoltaic panels installed on the roof or next to a residential house by citizens prosumers of their own electricity made these installations unprofitable and the number of new installations of this kind fell by three quarters. When the development of wind power in Poland was blocked in 2016, coal imports increased strongly. In addition, nuclear power and other fully renewable energy sources were not developed. The result is a low level of independence and energy security for the country. Besides, the result is one of the lowest air quality and high levels of smog in cities during the heating season in international rankings. Unfortunately, despite the existence of new renewable energy technologies whose application on a larger scale could solve the above problems, the scale of development of governmental and self-governmental programmes of financial subsidies and support from the European Union is still too small. And it is too small because Poland has not met the so-called milestones set by the European Commission and is the only country in the EU which has not received financial subsidies under the National Reconstruction Programme. One of these milestones is the issue of unblocking the onshore wind energy development previously blocked in 2016. Currently, i.e. in Q1. 2023, a law is being processed to unblock this issue. However, the still ruling PIS party, as part of its support for the development of coal-fired power generation and its support for government-controlled, monopolistically operating energy and fuel companies of the state treasury, included in the aforementioned law provisions that in practice limit the development of onshore wind energy (a minimum distance of 700 m between a windmill and the nearest buildings) so that only a few per cent of the country's area can be covered by these windmills. This means that a small proportion of willing citizens will benefit from this, and it will benefit mainly and also to a limited extent the government-controlled, monopolistically operating energy state companies. Thus the circle of this travesty of energy, climate and environmental pseudo-politics is closing. In view of the above, technological solutions that could solve the above problems are already available, but the national pseudo-politics of energy, climate and environment causes that the development of renewable and emission-free sources of energy, improvement of energy security, reduction of the scale of the energy crisis, improvement of air quality in cities is still being slowed down, the goals of sustainable development are being ignored by the PIS government, and the green transformation of the economy, achieving zero-emission of the economy, building a sustainable economy in accordance with counteracting the progressive process of global warming is progressing much slower than it could be.

In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:

What do you think about this topic?

What is your opinion on this subject?

Please respond,

Please answer with reasons,

I invite you all to discuss,

Thank you very much,

Best wishes,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

Please provide some literature on air pollution management

can we use the data from ECCAD and please suggest some official websites to access the data for air pollution

When air pollution began to have a significant deleterious effect on human life, it became necessary to discover and understand the links between emission sources and the air quality deterioration and health effects they cause. Only after the impacts of sources have been assessed correctly will it be possible to devise and implement rational, convincing, and effective policies to improve air quality. Over $29 billion were spent in the United States in 1983 on air pollution abatement and control (Council on Environmental Quality 1984). If a fraction of that expense can be saved by better understanding the relation of air quality and health effects to emission sources, the monetary benefits will be tremendous. Knowledge of the relation between emissions by a source and pollutant concentrations in the air at later times and other places (that is, the source/receptor relationship) is essential to calculating the exposure of humans to these pollutants and hence to predicting the health impacts resulting from these source emissions. Mathematical models have evolved as the most practical means to relate source emissions to the subsequent air pollution concentrations.

source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK218138/

Predicting air quality is a complex task due to the dynamic nature, volatility, and high variability in time and space of pollutants and particulates. At the same time, being able to model, predict, and monitor air quality is becoming more and more relevant, especially in urban areas, due to the observed critical impact of air pollution on citizens’ health and the environment. In this paper, we employ a popular machine learning method, support vector regression (SVR), to forecast pollutant and particulate levels and to predict the air quality index (AQI). Among the various tested alternatives, radial basis function (RBF) was the type of kernel that allowed SVR to obtain the most accurate predictions. Using the whole set of available variables revealed a more successful strategy than selecting features using principal component analysis.

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If I want to investigate the relationship between air pollution levels and the incidence of respiratory illnesses, how can I use regression analysis to determine the strength of this relationship and identify other potential contributing factors?

Dear Colleagues,

Despite the significant reduction in the average annual concentrations of major air pollutants in developed countries, the emerging growth of the world’s population and further reliance on fossil fuels for energy consumption confirm that further air quality improvements will remain a global challenge. The goal to convert to alternative energy sources and ultimately phase out fossil fuels to zero will not be realized soon, as evidenced by the current share of coal in gross energy consumption. Based on the results of a vast number of epidemiological studies, satellite-based observations, and extensive surface measurements, the WHO estimates that the world will face 7 million premature deaths per year, as a consequence of the long-term exposure to ambient and household air pollution. Thus, we believe that there is an urgent need for research to deal with non-linear and diverse spatio-temporal air pollutant data and processes, thus supporting advances in environmental science, which does not fit with the mission to guarantee global sustainability.

For all information, please click on a link: mdpi.com/journal/ijerph/special_issues/F3SM2CNE0R.

Prof. Dr. Svetlana Stanišić Guest Editor

How does air pollution affect agriculture in India and causes and effects of air pollution in India and does air pollution affect the environment?

Dear Sir

I'm using openair packages in R studio for air quality data analysis. Does anyone know if the polar map function in openairmaps package ( i.e. tools to create maps of air pollution data) works for the longitudes and latitudes of middle east countries?

I'll be so grateful if anyone could help me with this issue

Regards

What are the main causes of air pollution and what are its effects and does air pollution affect water and soil and effect of air pollution on biodiversity?

How does air affect agricultural production and does air pollution affect agriculture in India and effect of air pollution on plants and ecosystem?

Is there any tools/software/apps for assessing the Health Risk Assessment from Hazardous chemical? I need it for health risk assessment from dust chemicals.

It has some steps, but I'm looking for an integrated tool/app/software to get the results. I have a number of sample points of dust chemical, BTW.

Pls help. Thanks in advance.

Regards, Shareful

We use Jupyter Notebook in processing netCDF for Air Quality.

Hello,

I'm a M.S. studying on alkali metal batteries.

However, as you know, that alkali metal electrodes are vulnerable from air pollution.

To get SEM images, without special devices, pollution is inevitable.

However, Vacuum transfer modules for SEM are too expensive...

How you treat metal electrodes to prevent air pollution???

I think there are several solutions,,,

Is it okay enough to use sealed vacuum desiccator and minimize time of air pollution??

What should be the sample size (number of Questionaire) filled in each individual grid to carry out the survey-based studies in the research domain of air pollution for proposing the emission inventories?

*The published literature will be helpful along with the expertise advice.

I have measured concentrations of air pollutants emitted from a waste water tank.

I need to convert these concentrations from (mg/m3) to emission rates (g/s) to use in dispersion modeling.

I found several equations that need parameters I can't calculate such as flow rate (This parameter can be calculated for stack but I need to calculate it for a passive area source without any flow rate) .. pollutants emitted by aerosolization due to wind or evaporation.

Air quality in some countries is very bad. It becomes worse when the temperature drops during winters. There are a lot of air purifiers available in the market. Do they really work? If yes, which one would you suggest as per your experience?

Given the ongoing climate change, including global warming, air pollution, limited areas of urban parks and other green spaces, gardens, flower meadows established on the roofs of buildings in cities can significantly increase the areas of urban green space. When urban green areas are significantly expanded, the biodiversity of natural ecosystems in cities can also increase significantly. In addition, additional green areas can have a positive impact on the air quality of cities. Air quality is not only a question of pollution levels, but also humidity levels and summer temperatures. Additional green spaces can play an important role in the rest and recuperation of residents, which can translate into improved health for people living in the city. Additional green areas, including gardens and flower meadows, also mean more foraging areas for insects, including pollinating insects, whose numbers are rapidly declining due to the over-chemicalisation of agriculture. Besides, additional green areas in cities can increase the level of sustainability in terms of sustainable development, green building and environmentally and climatically sustainable urban agglomerations.

In view of the above, I would like to address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:

What is your opinion on this topic?

Please reply,

I invite you all to discuss,

Thank you very much,

Regards,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

The outbreak of COVID19 pandemic may have some other impacts such as Environmental, Social, Psychological, Ethical, Moral, Physical, Natural resources, Ecosystem, Energy, Professional etc. The eminent experts from these fields kindly share your views with particular positive or negative impact of COVID19 pandemic.

As it is evident, due to climate change and global warming, as well as energy shortage, there is a crucial need for energy consumption reduction and carbon contamination reduction in households as a major part of these events. One of the novel solutions for managing these problems is digital twins for better management in the construction and also maintenance processes of homes. I want to know:

Firstly, how much could this method be effective in this situation?

Secondly, what are the mechanisms and methods for this system?

Best regards,

Hossein Pouresmaeil.

Are there recent studies on mapping the trends of air quality using sentinel 5P, GOSAT, GOSAT-2, OCO-2, OCO-3 using SNAP desktop software?

the particular matters which are less than 2.5 Micron emitted from vehicles cause air pollution , now which of them is major element I(Hc , No, or other gasses?

We are about to map air quality in mining areas specifically for PM10 concentrations released from the site.

I am trying to get historical AQI data for cities across the world. Air Quality Open Data Platform (https://aqicn.org/data-platform/covid19/) has extensive data, but 2015-2018 data is available only for the first 6 months (H1). Does anyone know of other AQI databases where I could find yearly global AQI data?

The CO2 emissions are flying in the sky. When you messure the air quality, only the place to stand for measuring CO2 we know, BUT where is CO2 coming from we don not know. So, how do we bring this issue to the ICJ? Do they listen to our arbitration?

Given that the ICJ listens to our arbitration issues, how can they judge where does CO2 come from?

Dear Scholars,

Assume a mobile air pollution monitoring strategy using a network of sensors that move around the city, specifically a network of sensors that quantify PM2.5 at a height of 1.5 meters that lasts about 20 minutes. Clearly, using this strategy, we would lose temporal resolution to gain spatial resolution.

If we would like to perform spatial interpolation to "fill" the empty spaces, what would you recommend? What do you think about it? What would be your approximations?

Regards

I have calculated the emission rates for different types of bioaerosols as CFU/s.

I tried to use AERMOD but the inputs must be g/s.

How can I solve this problem?

I found some articles that used AERMOD for bioaerosols but I can't understand till now how they used it.

Website for downloading the free thermal images

As part of our BE final year project, our team is working on fog removal techniques from surrounding environment. Especially on hills, mountains, Highway. The purpose of this is to improve the visibility of surrounding.

Can any one just help us to figure it out.

In July 2022, one of the largest rivers in Poland was polluted by a discharge of warm, saline, highly oxidised water and possibly also by still unknown toxins.

Almost the entire river biosphere died out. Now (August 2022), the rotting remains of dead fish have caused secondary decay processes and a decrease in oxygen. Previously, so-called golden algae, which are harmful to the biosphere and form strong blooms in warm and saline water, have also developed. This is one of the biggest ecological disasters in Poland. The strangest thing is that anglers had already signalled at the end of June that the ecosystem of the Oder River had been severely disrupted by unknown substances released into the river. However, the services responsible and subordinate to the government, the company managing the state of rivers in Poland, i.e. Wody Polskie (Polish Water), started to do anything about it to save the river's ecosystem only in mid-August 2022.

Before that, anglers had already managed to catch tens of tonnes of dead fish.

Now many citizens are trying to answer questions:

Why did the river's environmental monitoring system not work?

Why have the institutions of the state acted with such a long delay when it comes to saving the river's ecosystem?

But this is just one of many examples of environmental disasters still occurring in various parts of the world.

In view of the above, I address the following questions to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:

What do you think about this topic?

Please reply,

I invite you all to discuss,

Thank you very much,

Greetings,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

Planetary Boundary Layer Height and its diurnal change

Currently, it is possible to monitor air quality using chemistry transport models and calculated concentration data dissemination platforms. In a localized agglomeration of atmospheric pollutant measurement stations, is it possible to carry out a study of urban air pollution by using only the data from these models ?

I am doing a research work on the appropriate H2S abatement for the removal of hydrogen sulfide to meet Environmental standards for air quality.

What ways can I get measurements of ozone and nitrogen dioxide concentrations in an area? What satellites provide this type of data and can I use Google Earth Engine to retrieve the data when it is available?

Reghais.A

Thanks

Cherish your feedback.

Good evening, I am looking for satellite air quality data for Morocco, can you help me identify and download examples of this data. Thank you

How can one correlate the diversity of lichen in an area with the air quality of such an area?

Excessive use of chemicals in agriculture results in contamination of products with high levels of chemical residues.

I want to analyze the associaiton between daily air pollution and hospital addmission using the time-series design. Typically, previous studies would use 0-7 days lag. However, I found positive associations between air pollution and hospital addmission at lag 2 day, but negative associaitons at lag 6 day and lag 7 day. I'm confused. Is it okay if I only perform 0-5 days lag?

I used Aeroqual S-500 series air quality assessment factory-calibrated sensor for particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10) detection for 24 hours. Surprisingly, I observed that PM2.5 is greater than the PM10 in most observations from indoors. Is it likely?/ how can I justify that issue?

So far my investigation led to WHO data and the OECD metropolitan database on air pollution. Are there other data sources, other indicators? Maybe not at the global scale but more regional (e.g. Europe, North America)?

Air pollution and climate change are unstable or even very bad, causing many lives to be affected by cancer, heart, lung, malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea, and heat stress.

What role can we (as in health) play in dealing with this?

I am looking for some documented selection criteria for low cost air pollution sensors. Any suggestions on that would be appreciable.

Secondly what kind of certifications are available for low cost air pollution sensors?

I want to know if there are alternative design to longitudinal cohort to study changes(ex.in air pollution and type 2 diabetes incidence)?

When I study the association between extreme temperature, I add the air pollution variable as a control variable. I design 2 types of model to test the correlations. Why one model shows the significant impact of air pollution on mortality, but another model shows it has no significant impact on mortality.

Why this situation would happen?

Dear all,

I am working on a research study exploring impact of air pollution on Peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR). I have five areas within a city - Rambagh, Alopibagh, Ashoknagar, Katra and Johnstonganj - with varying level of air pollution in each area. What I expect is, area which has high level of air pollutants, residents in that area will have low PEFR.

Variable png is a dummy variable representing those who consume tobacco and those who do not. Gender dummy variable has usual meaning.

I have run a double log regression model with result as shown in the image. Kindly help me to interpret the coefficients of dummy variable area and coefficients of interaction variable. - area#c.log_income

Any further suggestion to improve the model is highly welcomed. Thank you for your time.

Regards

Why do air quality field data sets are hard to find? Are the experiments expensive to conduct?

Dear Researchers,

Our research group at Gangadhar Meher University, Odisha, India is working on the impact of Air pollution on urban sustainability. In this regard we are conducting a survey on how air pollution affects the health of urban dwellers and and poses threat towards achieving the various United Nation Sustainable Development Goals -2030 (UN SDG).

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In the past I used to access European station data for sulphates, NOx, PM, etc from the AirBase (Air Quality DataBase), however this has changed (https://www.eea.europa.eu/) and I have been browsing their data and can't find the data. I can find statistics and other products that are derived from it, but not the actual data. I am sure that I am missing some crucial detail but I can't seem to wrap my head around it. Is there some other source for this data? Or some other way to access this data? Thank you

I am currently doing my dissertation on how air pollution levels from increased transport is affecting the health of the people in Delhi. I will be using QGIS to complete this.

I am looking for air quality or air pollution expert for a specific project...

It is an interesting and urgent project.

Please send a message if interested

We wonder if there is any evidence that exposure to air pollutants may contribute to the spread of virus-related diseases, and in particular to the COVID-19, within the human population. We look at several factors, including direct and indirect systemic effects connected to air quality, and in particular to aerosols.

Please, share your view in this matter.

As per my understanding in a residential area built environment likely to affect air flow of a place and hence air quality is also should be affected. Need views of the researchers on this.

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i,m need calculate air pollution potential for meteorology station without upper station?

and for describe of climate potential of air pollution need method?