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OVERVIEW OF TROPOSPHERIC NO2 USING THE OZONE MONITORING OBSERVATIONS INSTRUMENT AND HUMAN PERCEPTION ABOUT AIR QUALITY FOR THE MOST POLLUTING COUNTRIES ACCROSS THE WORLD



Adrian ROȘU*, Bogdan ROŞU1, Daniel-Eduard CONSTANTIN1, Maxim ARSENI1, Mirela VOICULESCU1, Lucian Puiu GEORGESCU1, Gabriel MURARIU1 & Ionel POPA2
1Faculty of Science and Environment, European Center of Excellence for the Environment, “Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, 111, Domneasca Street, RO-800201, Galati, Romania
2National Institute of Research and Development in Forestry ”Marin Drăcea” – Campulung Moldovenesc. Calea Bucovinei Street, no. 73 bis, 725100, Suceava, Romania
*Corresponding author: rosu_adrian_90@yahoo.ro


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Abstract

DOI: 10.26471/cjees/2019/014/091

In this study, we present the assessment of air pollution for the period 2007 – 2017 for the first five most polluting countries from each continent according to World Health Organization (WHO) and NUMBEO databases. Spatial variation of NO2 in each studied region is analyzed. Concurrent measurements of the NO2 pollution come from long-term satellite observations using the spaceborne instrument Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI). The satellite OMI instrument performs daily global measurements of NO2 using nadir Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy (DOAS) observations at a spatial resolution of 13x24 km2. Nitrogen dioxide data was extracted from OMI observations using Geospatial Interactive Online Visualization and ANalysis Infrastructure (GIOVANNI v4.24). The space observations represent the 30% cloud screened tropospheric vertical column densities of NO2 integrated over a surface of a binned pixel of 25x25 km2.

Keywords:
  • NO<sub>2</sub>
  • satellite
  • observations
  • OMI
  • perceived
  • air
  • pollution
  • tropospheric
  • NO<sub>2</sub>
  • GIOVANNI

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Adrian ROȘU*, Bogdan ROŞU, Daniel-Eduard CONSTANTIN, Maxim ARSENI, Mirela VOICULESCU, Lucian Puiu GEORGESCU, Gabriel MURARIU & Ionel POPA (2019). OVERVIEW OF TROPOSPHERIC NO2 USING THE OZONE MONITORING OBSERVATIONS INSTRUMENT AND HUMAN PERCEPTION ABOUT AIR QUALITY FOR THE MOST POLLUTING COUNTRIES ACCROSS THE WORLD, Carpathian Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences, August 2019, Vol. 14, No. 2, p. 423 - 430; https://doi.org/10.26471/cjees/2019/014/091

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