Establishment of a City-Based Index to Communicate Air Pollution-Related Health Risks to the Public in Bangkok, Thailand

Onchang, Rattapon; Hirunkasi, Kannigar; Janchay, Siriwan

doi:10.3390/su142416702

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“…Future work to further the understanding of haze in the study area can be extended to the following topics: quantified contributions of meteorology and emissions to haze [ 57 ], health impact of air pollution [ 58 ], vertical evolution of haze and atmospheric stability during cold surges and sea breezes, [ 59 ], quantitative meteorological classification [ 60 ], episodic chemical characterization and source apportionment, and the spatiotemporal variation of haze with satellite-based PM 2.5 mapping using statistical and machine learning modeling [ 61 ]. It is also useful to incorporate more PM 2.5 data into the analysis if the monitoring network becomes more extensive over the study area.…”

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A Study of Urban Haze and Its Association with Cold Surge and Sea Breeze for Greater Bangkok

Aman

Manomaiphiboon

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et al. 2023

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This study deals with haze characteristics under the influence of the cold surge and sea breeze for Greater Bangkok (GBK) in 2017–2022, including haze intensity and duration, meteorological classification for haze, and the potential effects of secondary aerosols and biomass burning. A total of 38 haze episodes and 159 haze days were identified. The episode duration varies from a single day to up to 14 days, suggesting different pathways of its formation and evolution. Short-duration episodes of 1–2 days are the most frequent with 18 episodes, and the frequency of haze episodes decreases as the haze duration increases. The increase in complexity in the formation of relatively longer episodes is suggested by a relatively higher coefficient of variation for PM2.5. Four meteorology-based types of haze episodes were classified. Type I is caused by the arrival of the cold surge in GBK, which leads to the development of stagnant conditions favorable for haze formation. Type II is induced by sea breeze, which leads to the accumulation of air pollutants due to its local recirculation and development of the thermal internal boundary layer. Type III consists of the haze episodes caused by the synergetic effect of the cold surge and sea breeze while Type IV consists of short haze episodes that are not affected by either the cold surge or sea breeze. Type II is the most frequent (15 episodes), while Type III is the most persistent and most polluted haze type. The spread of haze or region of relatively higher aerosol optical depth outside GBK in Type III is potentially due to advection and dispersion, while that in Type IV is due to short 1-day episodes potentially affected by biomass burning. Due to cold surge, the coolest and driest weather condition is found under Type I, while Type II has the most humid condition and highest recirculation factor due to the highest average sea breeze duration and penetration. The precursor ratio method suggests the potential effect of secondary aerosols on 34% of the total haze episodes. Additionally, biomass burning is found to potentially affect half of the total episodes as suggested by the examination of back trajectories and fire hotspots. Based on these results, some policy implications and future work are also suggested.

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