TY - JOUR
T1 - Monitoring particulate matter in India
T2 - recent trends and future outlook
AU - Pant, Pallavi
AU - Lal, Raj M.
AU - Guttikunda, Sarath K.
AU - Russell, Armistead G.
AU - Nagpure, Ajay S.
AU - Ramaswami, Anu
AU - Peltier, Richard E.
PY - 2019/1/8
Y1 - 2019/1/8
N2 - Air quality remains a significant environmental health challenge in India, and large sections of the population live in areas with poor ambient air quality. This article presents a summary of the regulatory monitoring landscape in India, and includes a discussion on measurement methods and other available government data on air pollution. Coarse particulate matter (PM 10 ) concentration data from the national regulatory monitoring network for 12 years (2004–2015) were systematically analyzed to determine broad trends. Less than 1% of all PM 10 measurements (11 out of 4789) were found to meet the annual average WHO Air Quality Guideline (20 μg/m 3 ), while 19% of the locations were in compliance with the Indian air quality standards for PM 10 (60 μg/m 3 ). Further efforts are necessary to improve measurement coverage and quality including the use of hybrid monitoring systems, harmonized approaches for sampling and data analysis, and easier data accessibility.
AB - Air quality remains a significant environmental health challenge in India, and large sections of the population live in areas with poor ambient air quality. This article presents a summary of the regulatory monitoring landscape in India, and includes a discussion on measurement methods and other available government data on air pollution. Coarse particulate matter (PM 10 ) concentration data from the national regulatory monitoring network for 12 years (2004–2015) were systematically analyzed to determine broad trends. Less than 1% of all PM 10 measurements (11 out of 4789) were found to meet the annual average WHO Air Quality Guideline (20 μg/m 3 ), while 19% of the locations were in compliance with the Indian air quality standards for PM 10 (60 μg/m 3 ). Further efforts are necessary to improve measurement coverage and quality including the use of hybrid monitoring systems, harmonized approaches for sampling and data analysis, and easier data accessibility.
KW - Air pollution policy
KW - Air quality monitoring
KW - India
KW - PM
KW - PM
KW - WHO Air Quality Guidelines
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U2 - 10.1007/s11869-018-0629-6
DO - 10.1007/s11869-018-0629-6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85055922237
VL - 12
SP - 45
EP - 58
JO - Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health
JF - Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health
SN - 1873-9318
IS - 1
ER -