AccScience Publishing / AJWEP / Volume 20 / Issue 2 / DOI: 10.3233/AJW230027
RESEARCH ARTICLE

Estimation of Air Pollutants Along with Meteorological Parameters and Study of Their Impact on Human Health

Mehraj Uddin Bhat1 Anish C. Pandey1 Mohd Aadil Deva1
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1 Pollution Ecology Lab, School of Studies in Botany, Jiwaji University, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh
AJWEP 2023, 20(2), 75–83; https://doi.org/10.3233/AJW230027
Received: 6 January 2020 | Published online: 18 July 2022
© 2022 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
Abstract

The research studies have shown that air pollution has been well thought-out as the main warning to health globally. It requests the participation of researchers from time to time to address and revive the problem sincerely. In India concentration of air pollutants has become a serious issue. In most Indian cities, the level of air pollutants is above the prescribed level as per the CPCB. Gwalior City of Madhya Pradesh (India) is at the entrance of speedy urbanisation and industrialisation which causes the worsening air quality of the city. As per the reports of 2015, Gwalior is listed among the top polluted city in India. To address this problem an investigation of air pollutant concentration was carried out at three stations in Gwalior. In this study SO2, NO2 and RSPM and SPM were collected over three stations categorised as residential, industrial and commercial and estimation was done by chemical methods. Meteorological parameters like temperature and relative humidity were also recorded during the sampling period. Seasonal variations of these pollutants have been analysed and noted. From the study, the concentrations of the pollutants were observed to be high in summer and winter than in monsoon and post-monsoon seasons. In this study, it was noticed that the RSPM and SPM levels at all selected sites exceed the prescribed limits. While the level of gaseous SO2 and NO2 are observed to remain under prescribed limits. The main objective of this study was to know the quality of air in Gwalior and study its health impacts as the city has been selected as one of the hundred Indian cities that can be developed into a smart city under PM Narendra Modi’s flagship Smart Cities Mission.

Keywords
Chemical methods
air pollutants
meteorological parameters
human health
Gwalior.
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