Towards comprehensive air quality management using low-cost sensors for pollution source apportionment

D Bousiotis, G Allison, DCS Beddows… - npj Climate and …, 2023 - nature.com
Successful air quality management and control not only requires measurements of air
pollution levels. It also requires information on the sources of air pollution, and their relative …

Modeling PM2.5 During Severe Atmospheric Pollution Episode in Lagos, Nigeria: Spatiotemporal Variations, Source Apportionment, and Meteorological Influences

ID Sulaymon, Y Zhang, PK Hopke, F Ye… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In 2021, the World Health Organization ranked Nigeria among the most polluted
nations in the world, an indication of a deteriorating air quality, especially in the major urban …

An overview of outdoor low-cost gas-phase air quality sensor deployments: current efforts, trends, and limitations

K Okorn, LT Iraci - Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 2024 - amt.copernicus.org
We reviewed 60 sensor networks and 17 related efforts (sensor review papers and data
accessibility projects) to better understand the landscape of stationary low-cost gas-phase …

Atmospheric mercury speciation and concentration at the urban and industrial sites in Taiwan over a three-year period

CC Lin, JKE Macrohon, P Brimblecombe… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - Elsevier
Mercury (Hg) is a toxic metal known to be detrimental to human health and wildlife survival
due to its serious toxicity to the central nervous system. In this study, measurements of …

Spatio-temporal statistical analysis of PM1 and PM2.5 concentrations and their key influencing factors at Guayaquil city, Ecuador

G Rincon, G Morantes, H Roa-López… - … Research and Risk …, 2023 - Springer
Guayaquil, Ecuador, is in a tropical area on the equatorial Pacific Ocean coast of South
America. Since 2008 the city has been increasing its population, vehicle fleet and …

Exploring the Nexus between Greenhouse Emissions, Environmental Degradation and Green Energy in Europe: A Critique of the Environmental Kuznets Curve.

A Horobet, L Belascu, M Radulescu… - Energies …, 2024 - search.ebscohost.com
This study examines the intricate relationship between economic growth and European
environmental degradation via the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC). Our results contest …

Source apportionment and analysis of spatial representativeness of fine particle pollution for an urban residential area in Lucknow, India

S Bojjagani, SSK Mahanta, HO Prasad… - Environmental …, 2023 - liebertpub.com
Land use changes in the wake of urbanization have arranged the urban residential sites to
be encircled by anthropogenic activities, resulting in greater exposure to air pollution. There …

PM2. 5 in Sri Lanka: Trend analysis, low-cost sensor correlations and spatial distribution

R Dhammapala, A Basnayake, S Premasiri… - Aerosol and Air Quality …, 2022 - aaqr.org
ABSTRACT The South Asian island nation of Sri Lanka did not have any permanent PM2. 5
monitors sharing data publicly in near-real-time until the US Embassy installed a Beta …

Spatiotemporal distribution of pollutants and impact of local meteorology on source influence on pollutants' level in a traffic air-shed in Lagos megacity, Nigeria

AP Olufemi, OG Fawole, OK Owoade… - Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
Pollution from vehicular emissions is a major cause of poor air quality observed in many
urban and semi-urban towns and cities. As such, this study was conducted to assess air …

[PDF][PDF] Multi-Year Continuous Observations of Ambient PM2. 5 at Six Sites in Akure, Southwestern Nigeria

S Saetae, FO Abulude, MM Ndamitso… - …, 2024 - nagasaki-u.repo.nii.ac.jp
The spatial–temporal variations of fine particulate matter (PM2. 5) in Akure, a city in
southwestern Nigeria, are examined based on multi-year continuous observations using low …