Study of Air Pollution and Atmospheric Stability in Ciuc Basin - Romania

Abstract

The atmospheric stability plays an important role in the accumulation of air pollutants and greatly influences their degradation, dispersion and deposition. These atmospheric qualities can be determined with various methods (Richardson number, Monin - Obukhov length, SRDT method) and the pollutant concentration increase demonstrates the atmospheric stability. In this study the cold periods were the most stable as well the PM10 and CO pollutants had high concentrations. Between these two pollutants the correlation is high because their sources are the same: transport and biomass burning. The study of hourly averages highlighted the importance of traffic intensity since the concentration variation follows the traffic intensity. An increase in the wind speed in the basin results in the pollutants concentrations decrease, the negative correlation with the temperature indicating the importance of the photochemical processes.