An analysis of air pollution in Makkah - A view point of source identification

EnvironmentAsia

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 11-17

  Habeebullah, Turki M ^a  

^a UMM AL QURA UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Makkah; Source identification; Sources of air pollution

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARBON MONOXIDE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); NITRIC OXIDE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTANT SOURCE; SULFUR DIOXIDE; TRAFFIC EMISSION;

MAKKAH [SAUDI ARABIA]; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 84879586826     PISSN: 19061714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Carslaw DC, Ropkins K. Openair - an R package for air quality data analysis. Environmental Modelling & Software 2012; 27-28: 52-61.
2. Clapp LJ, Jenkin ME.Analysis of the relationship between ambient levels of O3, NO2 and NO as a function of NOX in the UK. Atmospheric Environment 2001; 35: 6391-6405.
3. Habeebullah TM, Munir S, Morsy EA. An investigation into the spatiotemporal trends of air pollution in Makkah. A Report submitted to the Department of Environment and Health Research, the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Institute for Hajj and Umrah Research, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 2012.
4. Jenkin ME. Analysis of sources and partitioning of oxidant in the UK. Part 1: The NOX-dependence of annual mean concentrations of nitrogen dioxide and ozone. Atmospheric Environment 2004; 38: 5117-5129.
5. Khodeir M, Shamy M, Alghamdi M, Zhong M, Sun H, Costa M, Chen LC, Maciejcczyk PM. Source apportionment and elemental composition of PM2.5 and PM10 in Jeddah City, Saudi Arabia. Atmospheric Pollution Research 2012; 3: 331-340.
6. Munir S, Habeebullah TM, Seroji AR, Morsy EA, Mohammed AMF, Saud WA, Abdou, AEA, Awad AH. Modelling Particulate Matter Concentrations in Makkah, Applying a Statistical Modelling Approach. Aerosol and Air Quality Research 2013 (accepted January 2013). Available online: (http://aaqr.org/Articles_In_Press.php).
7. Munir S, Chen H, and Ropkins K. Characterising the temporal variations of ground level ozone and its relationship with traffic-related air pollutants in the UK: a quantile regression approach. Sustainable development and planning 2012 (accepted April, 2012).
8. Nasralla MM. Air-pollution in the semitropical Saudi urban area. Environment Internationa l983; 9: 255-264.
9. Othman N, Mat-Jafri MZ, San LH. Estimating Particulate Matter Concentration over Arid Region Using Satellite Remote Sensing: A Case Study in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, Modern Applied Science 2010; 4: 11-19.
10. PME. Presidency of Meteorology and Enviornment, The Royla Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 2012 (http://www.pme. gov.sa/en/en_airpollution.asp).
11. R Development Core Team. R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. ISBN 3-900051-07-0, URL http://www.R-project.org/. R 2012 version 2.14.1.
12. Seroji AR.Particulates in the atmosphere of Makkah and Mina Valley during the Ramadan and Hajj seasons of 2004 and 2005.In Air Pollution XIX (Eds: Brebbia CA, Longhurst JWS, Popov V).Wessex Institute of Technology, UK 2011: 319-327.
13. Westmoreland EM, Carslaw N, Carslaw DC, Gillah A, and Bates E. Analysis of air quality within a street canyon using statistical and dispersion modelling techniques. Atmospheric Environment 2007; 41: 9195-205.
14. WHO. World Health Organisation, Health risks of ozone from long-range transboundary air pollution. A report prepared by WHO Regional Office for Europe, 2008 (http://www.euro.who.int/Document/ E91843.pdf).
15. Wood SN. Generalized Additive Models: An Introduction with R. Chapman and Hall/CRC 2006.