Ambient Air Quality in the Czech Republic

• Other Authors: Hůnová, Iva (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Research & information: general; Environmental economics; Pollution control; air pollution; air quality; 1950-2018; Czechoslovakia; emissions; aerosol; ground-level ozone; atmospheric deposition; health outcomes; environmental issues; particles; traffic; dispersion; PM10; pollution; F-gases; greenhouse gases; global warming potential; substitutes for ozone depleting substances; Czech Republic; microsensors; particle counter; gas analyzers; relative humidity; mixing layer height; ceilometer; suspended particulate matter; Czech-Polish border; urban parks; particulate matter; nitrogen oxides; ozone; PM pollution; seasonality; meteorological conditions; source apportionment; PMF (Positive Matrix Factorization); PM2.5; long-term trends; background scale; locomotives; non-road engines; rail; diesel-electric; real-world emissions; portable on-board emissions monitoring systems; NOx; real driving emissions; urban canopy; weather prediction; validation; PM1 aerosol; elements; water-soluble ions; factor analysis; benzo(a)pyrene; ambient air concentrations; spatial-temporal; population exposure; transboundary transport; meteorological factors; monitoring stations; Passing-Bablok test; regression analysis; statistical modeling; analysis of variance; tower; high-volume sampler; wind-direction-dependent sampling; neutron activation analysis; elemental composition; cross-border pollution transport; AIR BORDER; Czech-Polish borderlands; Interreg; NO2; passive sampler; Dieselgate; Prague; traffic volume; citizen science; public policy; health effects; n/a
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Ambient air quality in the present-day Czech Republic (CR), one of the two succession countries of Czechoslovakia post-1993, was perceived as a major problem with severe human health and environmental consequences, particularly between the 1970s and 1990s. Since that time, the ambient air quality in...