Open AccessAir quality investigation over Moundou Chad
Author(s) -
M. E. Emetere,
Temitayo E Oladimeji
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.179
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/331/1/012008
Subject(s) - aerosol , standard deviation , radiometer , environmental science , satellite , meteorology , remote sensing , air quality index , coefficient of variation , atmospheric sciences , climatology , geology , geography , statistics , mathematics , engineering , aerospace engineering
The air quality over Moundou-Chad was examined using satellite dataset. Fifteen years aerosol optical depth (AOD) was obtained from the Multi-angle Imaging Spectro-Radiometer (MISR). The AOD dataset is statisticaly stable for further prediction. The highest AOD mean was observed in 2008. The standard deviation, average deviation and coefficient of variation all agrees that the AOD dataset is reliable. It is shown that the aerosol loading over Moundou is high and the size of the aerosol is very tiny to deposit in the human lungs.