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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Primary Language
English
Subjects
Engineering
Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Hakan Erdun
This is me
Özkan Çapraz
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Betül Özer
Türkiye
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