Monitoring global air pollution

Abstract

For many decades, it was generally assumed that air pollution was essentially a local problem, closely associated with man's industrial activities and urban living patterns. Increasingly, realization of the more global aspects of the problem has been emerging. This is occurring not only because of the global transportation of

Urban air pollution worldwide

“…Most sites in the developing countries became operational after 1976, and fewer data are available from these locations. A map of the monitoring sites and a discussion of the early development of the project have been published (10).…”