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Climate in cities

Basics

1. Criteria of pollution

Worksheet 1

 

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It is useful to classify the air pollution, to get some information on the human impact on it, as well as on the relations between and effects of different pollutants.

 

authors: Anita Bokwa, Michael Seesing, 
             Pawel Jezioro (©2004)

 

 

 

 

 

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Mark the apprpriate field to allocate the kind of air pollution to the appropriate criteria. If a clear allocation is impossible to you, then mark that region in a different way.

 

                       
         origin       
                 
      

                       
  transformation 
                       

      type of      
    substances  
                      

 

natural
         

anthro-pogenic

primary 
           

secon-dary   

aerosols
           

gases
        

sulphur dioxide from a coal-fired stove.

                  

ozone from the forest burning in Indonesia 1997
(see Espere-website: Lower atmosphere / Basics // 2.Vegetations... / Fire)

                 

smoke from the forest burning in Indonesia 1997
(see the same website)

                  

zinc oxide from the abrasion of car tires.

                  

carbon dioxide from a modern coal-fired power station with a high chimney

                  

carbon dioxide from a modern coal-fired power station with a low chimney

                  

silicon dioxide from the eruption of the vulcano Mt. Pinatubo
(see Espere-website: higher atmosphere/basics// 1. understanding the stratosphere/ - composition)

                 

nitrogen oxides from a stationary diesel generator

                 

terpene (volatile hydrocarbons) from a pine tree

                 

sulphur dioxide from motorbuses

                 

ozone above a large city in the summer

                  

caesium 137 from the nuclear accident in Chernobyl (Ukraine) 1986

                 

sulphuric acid in clouds

                   
                    
                   
                     

 

About this page:
Authors: M. Seesing, M. Tausch - Universität Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg / Germany
Reviewer: Dr. Anita Bokwa - Jagiellonian University - Cracow / Poland
Last update: 2004-05-13

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