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Air Quality of Karaman City, Turkey
(Hysen MANKOLLI, 2020) Mankolli, H.; Toros, H.; Dursun, S.
Karaman is a new and developing city in Turkey's economy is developing and the industry. Geographically, the location of Karaman is located in the south of the Central Anatolia region, in the north of the Taurus Mountains. With its fertile lands, the economy and industry based on Karaman agriculture are developing. Karaman city center has modern industrial facilities open for employment. It is known to have an important industrial potential in recent years. The total surface area of 887 thousand ha of Karaman province; 229 thousand hectares (26%) are flat areas and 654 thousand hectares (74%) are mountainous. The population size is around 250 thousand. Turkey is ahead in the production of bakery products, 35% and 20% of total wheat production is produced by Karaman biscuit manufacturing industry. Turkey, as in general in Karaman in fossil fuel consumption for heating in the cold winter air pollution as it is used in many developed cities is also observed. Traffic vehicles vehicle exhausts and fossil fuels used in industry are other important sources of pollution in the city center. In Turkey, the year 2020 at the beginning of March with the gorilla-19 Covidien epidemic, there has been a significant improvement in air quality. The field dust event that occurred after pandemic virus measures, especially PM pollution increase was observed. © 2020, Hysen MANKOLLI. All rights reserved.
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Air Quality Status in Konya City Centre, Konya, Turkey During Pandemic Covid-19
(Institute of Physics, 2022) Yahaya, N. Z.; Jalaludin, J.; Toros, H.; Dursun, S.
High developed industry regions, provincial centers with a heavy traffic and dense populations with cold winters, using low-quality fossil fuel consumption have an effect on quality of life especially for people with respiratory diseases. The air quality data gathered from air monitoring stations for the City Center of Konya, Turkey were analysed statistically during the period when curfew due to the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. The restrictions that cause the reduction of vehicle exhaust emissions, which are important factors in the formation of some air pollutants, are thought to be effective in improving the air quality as well as meteorological conditions are effective on the days when the air quality is analysed. It is thought that the reduction in HC, NOx, CO and PM emissions, which can be evaluated as exhaust emissions, will be an effective factor due to the restrictions of Covid-19 pandemic. Comparing between the 2019 and 2020 MCO data, we identified that most of the gases decreased with NO2 (-24 ?g/m3), SO2 (-24 ?g/m3), CO (-37 ?g/m3) and an increment of O3 of +50 ?g/m3 which indicates that the MCO and restricted of movement were give an impact to air quality levels in Konya City. The increase in O3 values were found by the existing of the sun rays in the atmosphere with the formation of O3 during the clean air period. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.