Open AccessOzone concentration in ground-level air layer in north-western Poland - The role of meteorological elements
Author(s) -
Robert Kalbarczyk,
Eliza Kalbarczyk
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
annals of warsaw university of life sciences-sggw. land reclamation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2081-9617
pISSN - 1898-8857
DOI - 10.2478/v10060-008-0047-9
Subject(s) - environmental science , wind speed , relative humidity , daytime , atmospheric sciences , ozone , air mass (solar energy) , tropospheric ozone , troposphere , wind direction , air temperature , humidity , ground level ozone , atmospheric pressure , meteorology , climatology , geography , geology , physics , boundary layer , thermodynamics
Ozone concentration in ground-level air layer in north-western Poland - The role of meteorological elements The research aimed at recognising time structure and variability of tropospheric ozone as a function of daytime and nocturnal meteorological conditions, particularly in the spring season (March-May), as well as finding a weather cluster at which the highest O 3 concentration occurs. Ozone concentrations recorded every hour during the two years and data on five other meteorological elements: total solar radiation, air temperature, relative air humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind direction and speed provided the input data for the analysis. The data were collected at Widuchowa weather station, north-western Poland, near the Polish-German border. The highest ozone concentration was observed at daytime day, under conditions of eastern wind, low relative air humidity (about 35%), high values of total solar radiation (about 209 W·m -2 ), air temperature (17.0°C), atmospheric pressure (1016 hPa) and high wind speed (2.7 m·s -1 ). It is concluded that the magnitude of tropospheric ozone concentration recorded at Widuchowa is influenced by gaseous pollutants originating not only from the territory of Poland but also from Germany.