Beijing residents were subjected to “Moderate” levels of pollution for just two months in 2019, August and September. For the remaining ten months they experienced air quality that was classified as “Unhealthy for Sensitive groups”, according to levels recommended by the World Health Organisation...
In cities such as Los Angeles, COVID-19 seems to have played no part in the improvement of air quality. The large fleet of delivery trucks has been plying the roads as usual which proves just what a major source of pollution they are. Looking towards the eastern seaboard, the story is ...
Spatial Correlation between Traffic and Air Pollution in BeijingBeijinggeospatial statisticsPM2.5spatial correlationtraffic-related air pollutionMany studies have attempted to model the sophisticated influence of traffic emissions on air pollution, but most models only calculate the contribution of traffic ...
Air pollution statisticsBack Top 7 Statistics on air pollution: Why so relevant & how to reduce? It seems like there’s a new story about air pollution in the news every day. Here’s seven statistics that demonstrate why it’s important—and what you can do about it. In November 2015,...
The prediction of air pollution is of great importance in highly populated areas because it directly impacts both the management of the city’s economic activity and the health of its inhabitants. This work evaluates and predicts the Spatio-temporal behavior of air quality in Metropolitan Lima, Per...
The online coupled weather research and forecasting model with chemistry (WRF-Chem) was used to investigate an air pollution event during December 2016 in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration. Evaluation indicates that WRF-Chem captured the main weather conditions and pollutant distribution in this...
Objective To study the relationship between ambient air pollution and daily mortality of SARS in Beijing. Methods The approach of time-series Poisson regression was used to assess the relationship between daily SARS mortality, ambient air pollution, and other factors from April 25 to May 31, 2003...
Objective:To investigate the long-term effects of air pollution on prevalence of respiratory symptoms in adults,in Beijing.Methods:A corss-sectional study was conducted in an urban area and a suburban area with different levels of air pollution in October 2008,in Beijing.Respiratory symptoms were ...
AIR QUALITY ANALYSIS AND STATISTICS FOR India How bad is India’s air pollution? In 2019, as part of a worldwide survey, it was discovered that 21 out of the 30 most polluted cities were in India. And this pushed India’s ranking as a country to 5th place, according to figures publish...
There has been a strong shift in public opinion about air quality in China since 2012, and particularly Beijing, where high pollution levels are matched by concomitant public anxiety (Ji et al., 2014; Wang, 2018). This has allowed the regulation of fireworks to become more acceptable (Zheng...