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UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST
FACULTY OF PHYSICS Guest
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Conference: Bucharest University Faculty of Physics 2021 Meeting
Section: Atmosphere and Earth Science; Environment Protection
Title:
The impact of urban pollution on human health in the context of climate change
Authors:
Alin SCARLAT(1,3), Andreea CALCAN(2), Gabriela IORGA (1,3)
Affiliation:
1) University of Bucharest, Faculty of Physics, Atomistilor 405, Magurele, 077125 Bucharest, Romania
2) National Institute for Aerospace Research ‘Elie Carafoli’ INCAS, Environmental Aerodynamics, Bd. Iuliu Maniu 220, 061126, Bucharest, Romania
3) University of Bucharest, Department of Physical Chemistry, Bd. Regina Elisabeta 4-12, 030018 Bucharest, Romania
E-mail
scarlat.alin30@gmail.com
Keywords:
air pollutants, heat waves, PM10, O3, relative risk
Abstract:
Heat waves are extreme climatic events that bring high temperatures and drought. It is known that high temperatures cause thermal discomfort for living organisms and the drought affects the economy and agriculture, but what but what would be the combined effect of these two factors? That was the question we set out: to find out if higher temperatures have an effect on air pollution in Bucharest, Brasov and Iasi. Then, to show the impacts these air pollutants may have on health looking to see if we can find a correlation between high temperatures and the likelihood of people getting sick from such exposure to these air pollutants in the context of higher temperatures. The air pollutants chosen for this study were PM10, O3, NOx and CO, during the summer season of several years, the years being chosen so as to include periods with heat waves and periods in which the air temperature did not exceeded the normal values and no heat waves were recorded so that its results can be compared. The cities of Bucharest, Brasov and Iasi were selected for study because they revealed to be the most polluted cities in the country in the time long run. These cities are also specific targeted by the European Environment Agency with respect of the air pollution infringement procedure against Romania.
Acknowledgement:
GI thanks the support from EEA-RO-NO-0423 project, contract no 31/2020. Ground-based air pollutant data and meteorology by site were extracted from the public available Romanian National Air Quality Database, www.calitateaer.ro.
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