Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Journal of Young Scientist", Vol. 8
Written by Vafa SHIKHIYEVA, Georgina TOTH-NAGY
The rapid economic improvement in developing countries during the last decades has been followed by growingly deteriorated air quality. Air pollution is considering one of the most critical environmental issues in the urban areas of Azerbaijan. As a result of the urbanization, emissions from oil, gas, chemistry, metal, construction material industries, and car building complex, the atmospheric air of the Absheron peninsula become the most contaminated place in Azerbaijan. The primary anthropogenic sources of air pollution in Azerbaijan are mobile sources and the oil-and-gas industry. However, the number of literature and researches was written about this problem is not adequate. In this research work, we aimed to analyze the changes in the last years of air quality in Azerbaijan. To reach our goal, we used the times series analysis method. The research is principally based on examining the air quality situation in six big cities of Azerbaijan. One of the main reasons for that was the high concentration level of PM and SO2. We also applied Air Quality Index (AQI) method to our research, and it showed that atmospheric air in Baku, Mingechevir, and Nakhchivan was heavily contaminated. Our study revealed that air quality in the big cities of the country is poor.
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