Research Article

Air Pollution and Quality Levels in Metropolitans of Turkey for Sustainable life

Volume: 1 Number: 1 December 31, 2013
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Air Pollution and Quality Levels in Metropolitans of Turkey for Sustainable life

Abstract

Turkey has had significant improvements in her economy over the last decades. Although, Turkey's air quality constantly improves every year, air pollution problem still continues in Turkey. Descriptive statistics was carried out for the three years hourly average of PM10, SO2, NO2 and O3 concentrations of 16 metropolitan cities in Turkey. The frequency distribution of daily average PM10 concentration of all cities occurs within 59% at 20–60 µgm-3 range. Daily average SO2 concentration is about 84% below 20µgm-3. The study also indicated that 44% of NO2 and 59% of O3 were below the levels of 45 µgm-3 and 30 µgm-3, respectively. The result of this study is expected to benefit the legislators, scientists and government personnel about controlling and reducing emissions by developing a long-term air quality management strategy and create more public awareness for the prevention of consumption.

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Supporting Institution

TUBITAK

Project Number

111Y319

Thanks

The authors are grateful to Ministry of Environment and Urbanism of Turkey for the air quality data. This study is a background of the online integrated air quality and meteorology modeling project funding by the TUBITAK (Project No: 111Y319) and COST Action ES1004.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Engineering

Journal Section

Research Article

Authors

Hakan Erdun This is me

Özkan Çapraz This is me

Esra Bozyazı Daylan This is me
Türkiye

Ali İhsan Öztürk This is me
Türkiye

Publication Date

December 31, 2013

Submission Date

May 25, 2013

Acceptance Date

December 20, 2013

Published in Issue

Year 2013 Volume: 1 Number: 1

APA
Toros, H., Erdun, H., Çapraz, Ö., Özer, B., Bozyazı Daylan, E., & Öztürk, A. İ. (2013). Air Pollution and Quality Levels in Metropolitans of Turkey for Sustainable life. Avrupa Bilim Ve Teknoloji Dergisi, 1(1), 12-18. https://izlik.org/JA72UR36ZF