The relationships between meteorological parameters and air pollutants in an urban environment

Kayes, I.; Shahriar, S.A.; Hasan, K.; Akhter, M.; Kabir, M.M.; Salam, M.A.

doi:10.22034/GJESM.2019.03.01

Document Type : ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE

Authors

Department of Environmental Science and Disaster Management, Faculty of Science, Noakhali Science and Technology University, Noakhali-3814, Bangladesh

https://doi.org/10.22034/GJESM.2019.03.01

Abstract

Meteorological parameters play a significant role in affecting ambient air quality of an urban environment. As Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, is one of the air pollution hotspot among the megacities in the world, however the potential meteorological influences on criteria air pollutants for this megacity are remained less studied. The objectives of this research were to examine the relationships between meteorological parameters such as daily mean temperature (^oC), relative humidity (%) and rainfall (mm) and, the concentration of criteria air pollutants (SO₂, CO, NOx, O₃, PM_2.5 and PM₁₀) from January, 2013 to December, 2017. This study also focused on the trend analysis of the air pollutants concentration over the period. Spearman correlation was applied to illustrate the relationships between air pollutants concentration and temperature, relative humidity and rainfall. Multiple linear and non-linear regressions were compared to explore potential role of meteorological parameters on air pollutants' concentrations. Trend analysis resulted that concentration of SO₂ is increasing in the air of Dhaka while others are decreasing. Most of the pollutants resulted negative correlation with atmospheric temperature and relative humidity, however, they showed variable response to seasonal variation of meteorological parameters. Regression analysis resulted that both the multiple non-linear and linear model performed similar for predicting concentrations of particulate matters but for gaseous pollutants both model performances were poor. This research is expected to contribute in improving the forecast accuracy of air pollution under variable meteorological parameters considering seasonal fluctuations.

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Highlights

PM_2.5and PM₁₀ are negatively correlation with temperature and relative humidity;
Seasonal variations of meteorological parameters resulted variable effects on air pollutants concentration;
Multiple non-linear and linear model performed similar for modeling particulate matters but for gaseous pollutants model performances were poor.

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