Title of article :
The Effects of Atmospheric Processes on Tehran Smog Forming
Author/Authors :
Mohammadi, H Dept. of Physical Geography - University of Tehran, Tehran , Cohen, D School of Biological - Earth and Environmental Studies (BEES) - UNSW, Sydney Australia , Babazadeh, M Dept. of Geography - University of Tehran, Tehran , Rokni, L Dept. of Geography - University of Tehran, Tehran
Abstract :
Air pollution is one of the most important problems in urban areas that always threaten citizen’s health. Photochemical
smog is one of the main factors of air pollution in large cities like Tehran. Usually smog is not only a
part of nature, but is being analyzed as an independent matter, which highly affects on the nature. It has been
used as relationship between atmospheric elements such as temperature, pressure, relative humidity, wind speed
with inversion in the time of smog forming and weather map in 500 Hpa level during 9 years descriptive static by
using correlation coefficient in this analyze. Results show that there is a meaningful correlation between atmospheric
elements and smog forming. This relation is seen between monthly average of these elements and
monthly average of smog forming. However, when temperature decreases, corresponding pressure will increase
and result of this will be smog forming. Usually smog increases in cold months of year due to enter cold high
pressure air masses in Iran during December and January that is simultaneous with decreasing temperature and
air pressure increases and inversion height distance decreases from the earth surface which cause to integrate air
pollution under its surface, will cause to form smog in Tehran. It shows a meaningful and strong relation, based
on resultant relations by correlation coefficient from inversion height and smog forming, so that obtained figure
is more than 60% .
Keywords :
Photochemical smog , Urban climatology , Inversion , Air pollution , Weather maps , Iran
Journal title :
Astroparticle Physics