Mapping recession risk for cultural heritage stone in Mexico City due to dry and wet deposition of urban air pollutants

Castillo-Miranda, J. O.; Torres-Jadón, Ricardo; García-Reynoso, José Agustín; Mar-Morales, B. E.; Rodríguez-Gómez, Francisco Javier; Ruíz-Suárez, L. G.

doi:10.20937/atm.2017.30.03.01

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“…(Bharti, 2013;Spezzano, 2021;Sablier and Garrigues, 2014;Metallo et al, 1995;Graue et al, 2013;Fuente et al, 2013;Karaca, 2015). However, these destructive changes are especially acute in urban centers (Saha et al, 2008;Singh et al, 2012;Miranda et al, 2017) due to the rapid development of industries, urbanization, transportation, and energy production (e.g., coal), which are the major source of aggressive air pollutants such as sulphur dioxide (SO 2 ), nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ), tropospheric ozone (O 3 ), and particulate matter (Varotsos et SO 4 and HNO 3 acids respectively, in the atmosphere precipitates on the earth as acid rain that results in the yellowing of the white marble and limestone of the Taj Mahal (Camuffo, 1992;Sharma and Sharma, 1982;Skymet Weather Team, 2015) and tarnishing the shine of the Golden Temple in Amritsar (Camuffo, 1992;Rao, 2015). Tropospheric ozone, being the precursor of NOx and VOCs (Agathokleous et el., 2020) exacerbates the corrosion process, in addition, to a direct impact on rubber, plastic, textiles, paint, and surface coatings of cultural heritage structures (Screpanti & DeMarco, 2009;Huang et al, 2019).…”

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India’s cultural heritage: Air quality effects amidst COVID-19 lockdown and seasonal variability

Arif,

Sachdeva,

Mangla

et al. 2024

J Atmos Chem

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India, one of the most dynamic ancient civilizations, possesses a multitude of historical artifacts, with 37 of its notable architectural structures recognized as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Yet, the ever-changing climate, especially air pollution, expedites the natural deterioration of historic sites and diminishes their aesthetic appeal, causing socio-economic damage.With this in mind, the current study aims at offering a logical scienti c foundation for the implications of air pollution, seasonal shifts, and COVID-19 on 14 signi cant historical places in India during the year 2019-20. The highest amounts of atmospheric pollution and an AQI of 102-141 were observed in Delhi, making it the most polluted city, and intensi es the risk of cultural sites to corrode and deteriorate. In general, winter season had elevated levels of NO 2 and particle pollution (PM2.5, PM10), whereas summer had the higher levels of O 3 . However, during the lockdown period of 5 months, the particulate matter concentration sharply declined by 70%, which otherwise remains constant over the year. Depending on different geographic locations and anthropogenic factors, dose-response statistics indicate that the corrosion threats to historic limestone and sandstone buildings are at an all-time high situation in the majority of the sites. On the other hand, various air quality management challenges are also discussed in the paper, along with the information on available approaches or government initiatives and e cient approaches to protect heritage sites against rapid degradation across the country. Conclusively, the present research provides a sound scienti c foundation to advance adequate policy-making on risk management and an effective national mandate to guard cultural heritage sites against corrosion.

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India’s cultural heritage: Air quality effects amidst COVID-19 lockdown and seasonal variability

Arif,

Sachdeva,

Mangla

et al. 2024

J Atmos Chem

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“…The final step of risk assessment was proposed in only one article published about Mexico [133]. The authors proposed the use of an existing damage function to estimate the damage that built property will suffer in Mexico City.…”

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Importance of Atmospheric Sciences in Stone Heritage Conservation Study in Italy and Mexico

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The preservation of heritage is crucial to successfully accomplish the Sustaining Development Goals (SDGs) because it leads to social unity; therefore, evaluating the decay mechanisms of stone-built heritage sites is critical to understanding the role of atmospheric conditions towards their conservation and to developing effective policies in the preservation of heritage and hence, community strength. In this paper, the differences of material decay between Italy’s and Mexico’s atmospheres and the perspectives to implement a more active role of the atmospheric sciences in the conservation of built heritage are presented. The risk assessment methodology proposed by the International Center for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) is used to present the reviewed published research because it is one of the few methodologies suggested for amply analyzing cultural property. Currently, in Europe, most research is aimed either to estimate the future decay of built property or to assess the main threats to a single site, on sites for which building materials have been studied previously and on sites for which forecast models have been developed, and the results are useful towards a preventive conservation approach, although the damage functions were developed considering a single climate and might not perform well under different conditions. Built property, however, is present worldwide and the conditions of those studies are not met in most developing countries, as the variation in materials and atmospheric conditions has not been researched yet. This article intends to reduce this gap by comparing both approaches, acknowledging possible common courses of action, and highlighting the role of built heritage in SDGs.

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“…Interpolation methods in GIS (e.g., inverse distance weighting (IDW), spline, and kriging) were used to estimate the spatial contribution of atmospheric pollutants and corrosion of materials in areas of interest (Castillo-Miranda et al, 2017;Eslami and Ghasemi, 2018;Castillo-Miranda et al, 2021). IDW determines values at nearby locations using a linear-weighted combination set of sample points.…”

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Estimation of Effects of Air Pollution on the Corrosion of Historical Buildings in Bangkok

Daengprathum

Onchang

Nakhapakorn

et al. 2022

Environ. Nat. Resour. J.

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Historical buildings are recognized as the valuable cultural heritage of a nation. They may suffer material deterioration unavoidably because of exposure to air pollution. We used geographic information systems with dose-response functions (DRFs) to estimate the corrosion of copper and Portland limestone, and their risk of corrosion with regard to historical buildings in Bangkok, Thailand. The first step was to find a suitable spatial interpolation method considering the air pollution and meteorological measurement data for 2010-2019 from 26 monitoring stations in Bangkok and its neighborhoods. Applying multiple performance measures, the inverse distance weighting (IDW) method was found to be the most suitable. Predictions of the pollutant concentration in the spatial atmosphere showed that the concentration of all pollutants (SO2, NO2, O3, and PM10) tends to increase in 2028. Air pollution exposure time duration tends to be a key factor affecting the corrosion of material. The results of spatial corrosion estimations indicated that in 2010, the corrosion of copper and Portland limestone were at acceptable levels; however, the estimated corrosion levels for 2019 and 2028 are higher and beyond the acceptable levels. Moreover, both materials in the Rattanakosin historical area exceed their tolerable corrosion rates with considerably serious risks in 2028. The results can be further used to establish active measures to reduce the rate of corrosion of historical buildings in Bangkok.

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Mapping recession risk for cultural heritage stone in Mexico City due to dry and wet deposition of urban air pollutants

Cited by 7 publications

References 49 publications

India’s cultural heritage: Air quality effects amidst COVID-19 lockdown and seasonal variability

India’s cultural heritage: Air quality effects amidst COVID-19 lockdown and seasonal variability

Importance of Atmospheric Sciences in Stone Heritage Conservation Study in Italy and Mexico

Estimation of Effects of Air Pollution on the Corrosion of Historical Buildings in Bangkok

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