학술논문

Extreme carbon monoxide pollution of the atmospheric boundary layer in Moscow region in the summer of 2010.
Document Type
Article
Source
Doklady Earth Sciences. Dec2011, Vol. 441 Issue 2, p1666-1672. 7p. 3 Charts, 4 Graphs.
Subject
*AIR pollution
*CARBON monoxide
*ENVIRONMENTAL monitoring
*SPECTROSCOPIC imaging
Language
ISSN
1028-334X
Abstract
Using data of spectroscopic measurements in Moscow and Moscow region and data of ecological monitoring from Ostankino TV Tower, it has been found that, in the period of intense smoke blanketing of the atmosphere in summer 2010 due to large-scale forest-peat fires on the territory of the European part of the Russian Federation, the carbon monoxide content in the boundary layer and in the atmospheric depth of Moscow region reached the extremely high level of 8 g/m, or 17 ×10 mol/cm, and the carbon monoxide concentration in the near-ground atmospheric layer increased to 37.5 mg/m, i.e., an unprecedentedly large value for Moscow and more than a factor of 7 larger than the one-time maximum permissible concentration for carbon monoxide MPC = 5 mg/m. In the first decade of August, when intense smoke blanketing of the Moscow region was observed, the average carbon monoxide concentrations varied in the range from approximately 3 to 7 m/g, i.e., an order of magnitude larger than the annual average concentrations calculated according to data of measurements in 2009. The probabilities of exceeding MPC and multiples of MPC are calculated. Analysis of data of thermal sensing showed that an important feature of the atmospheric boundary layer over the city was a high stability of the lower atmospheric layer with the thickness of 150-200 m, and also long-term nighttime and morning inversions of the air temperature in this layer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]