COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT OF AIR POLLUTION IN EUROPE AND UKRAINE USING EARTH REMOTE SENSING DATA

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Parent Category: Geo-Technical Mechanics, 2013

Category: Geo-Technical Mechanics, 2013, Issue 112

UDC 504.064.36:504.064.37

Author

R.A. Rodriges Zalipynis, Ph.D. (Tech.), Associate Professor

(SHEE «DonNTU»)

Abstract.

For the first time spatio-temporal characteristics of air pollution by sulfur dioxide (SO₂), nitrogen dioxide (NO₂), carbon dioxide (CO₂), carbon monoxide (CO) and aerosol over Ukraine and Europe are established. It was shown that moderate risks of air pollution by sulfur dioxide of eastern and western parts of Ukraine relate as 2:1. It was shown that values of moderate and high risks of European areas most polluted by aerosol (except the north of Italy) and Ukraine (Kyiv, Donetsk and Odessa regions) are approximately related as 1:1. Moderate levels of risks for Kiev, Donetsk and Odessa regions relate to moderate risk levels of other Ukrainian regions as 1.8:1. The maximum risk value of moderate pollution by nitrogen dioxide of the atmosphere of Europe and Ukraine relate as 3:1. The analysis of concentration dynamics of carbon dioxide for atmosphere of the whole earth for the last 8 years (2004–2011) revealed the increase for more than 20 ppm. It is shown that the atmosphere of Ukraine exposed to the same level of carbon monoxide pollution, as the atmosphere of other European countries.

Keywords:

 sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, aerosol

References:

1. R.A. Rodriges Zalipynis (2012), «Representing Earth remote sensing data as time series», System analysis and information technologies in social and environmental sciences, no. 1(2) – 2(3), pp. 135 – 145.

2. Climate Wikience [Electronic resource] – Access mode: http://wikience.donntu.edu.ua/.

3. R.A. Rodriges Zalipynis and G.V. Averin (2012), «Ecological assessment of air pollution by sulfur dioxide over the territory of Ukraine», Trudy Vtorogo mezhdunarodnogo nauchno-prakticheskogo ceminara «Povkhovskiye nauchniye chteniya», – Donetsk: DonNU. – pp. 131 – 137.

About the author

Rodriges Zalipynis Ramon Antonio, Candidate of Technical Scienses (Ph. D.), Associate Professor of the department of computer systems for monitoring State Higher Educational Establishment «The National Technical University» of Ukraine (SHEE «DonNTU» Ukraine), This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

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