<p>That air pollutants of different kind has impact on our climate can hardly have</p><p>avoided anyone during the past years environment explosion in the media. But how</p><p>is it actually with the reverse, i. e. the climate's impact on air pollutants? The aim</p><p>with our degree thesis is to try to find out if different weather factors, statistically</p><p>seen, promotes atmospheric pollutants and particles in the air and vice versa.</p><p>We got access to data on air pollutants and weather factors that was registered</p><p>during year 2007 at Femmanhusets air pollutant and weather station in Gothenburg.</p><p>In order to do a statistical investigation of these data, and to be able to analyze if it</p><p>occurs relations of various kind, we used the statistics program SPSS. In SPSS we</p><p>worked with correlation, regression and multiple linear regressions in order to get</p><p>our statistical relations between atmospheric pollutants and weather conditions.</p><p>Our results showed that ozone is the atmospheric pollutant that is most weather</p><p>sensitive and ozone has also proven to have the strongest connections to the weather</p><p>factors. Also nitrogen monoxide, nitrogen dioxide and carbon monoxide are</p><p>considerably influenced by the weather, however not in equally big extent as ozone.</p><p>Sulphur dioxide and PM10 is on the other hand influenced in a low extent and it is in</p><p>these cases difficult to say if the weather actually has any influence at all. Wind speed</p><p>was, apart from sulphur dioxide and PM10, the weather factor that were strongest</p><p>correlated to the remaining atmospheric pollutants. The relative humidity and the air</p><p>pressure were the two factors that overall gave the weakest connections to the</p><p>pollutants. As a conclusion, we can say that our results can be seen as an indication</p><p>to the public about how sensitive people should minimize their time outdoors in the</p><p>inner city on cold and calm days. It is when these weather conditions occur that the</p><p>highest concentrations of atmospheric pollutants, statistically seen, can be found.</p><p>However, this does not apply for ozone. For ozone, they should instead be aware on</p><p>sunny and windy days as it, statistically seen, is days where high concentrations of</p><p>ozone can be found in the air.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:hh-1571 |
| Date | January 2008 |
| Creators | Karlsson, Niklas, Erlingsson, Hanna |
| Publisher | Halmstad University, School of Business and Engineering (SET), Halmstad University, School of Business and Engineering (SET), Högskolan i Halmstad/Sektionen för Ekonomi och Teknik (SET) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, text |
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