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A recent study from 2022 shows that the primary cause of pollution in Lahore is from traffic-related PM (both exhausts and non exhaust sources). [89] Air quality in the Punjab, Pakistan deteriorates markedly during the post- monsoon to winter transition, driven by shifts in weather patterns like alterations in wind, temperature, and boundary ...
A difference in air pressure causes an air displacement and generates the wind. The Coriolis force deflects the air movement to the right in the northern hemisphere and the left in the southern one, which makes the winds parallel to the isobars on an elevation in pressure card. [1] It is also referred as the geostrophic wind. [2]
This causes illness and deaths from air pollution, including nitrous oxides and particulates, and is a significant cause of climate change through emission of carbon dioxide. [3] [4] Within the transport sector, road transport is the largest contributor to climate change. [3]
It is commonly observed near microbursts and downbursts caused by thunderstorms, [65] weather fronts, areas of locally higher low level winds referred to as low level jets, near mountains, [66] radiation inversions that occur because of clear skies and calm winds, buildings, [67] wind turbines, [68] and sailboats. [69]
A great many computer programs for calculating the dispersion of air pollutant emissions were developed during that period of time and they were called "air dispersion models". The basis for most of those models was the Complete Equation For Gaussian Dispersion Modeling Of Continuous, Buoyant Air Pollution Plumes shown below: [4] [5]
Researchers looked at data on exposure to traffic-related air pollution and results from heart MRIs for 3,920 adults who did not have cardiovascular disease. "Air pollution appears to be damaging ...
Plastic pollution is a relatively new and rapidly growing threat to whales. Many of the whales that have washed up dead on our shores have digestive systems clogged with plastic bags and other ...
Since a large share of air pollution is caused by combustion of fossil fuels such as coal and oil, the reduction of these fuels can reduce air pollution drastically. Most effective is the switch to clean power sources such as wind power, solar power, hydro power which do not cause air pollution. [286]