Urban climate and air pollution in Shanghai

✍ Scribed by Zhang Chao

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 711 KB
• Volume: 16
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0378-7788
• DOI: 10.1016/0378-7788(91)90033-y

✦ Synopsis

Shanghai is the greatest industrial and commercial city of China. In recent years, due to the rapid increases in population density, building density and energy consumption, the effects on urban climate are very evident and air pollution is serious.

Firstly, the characteristics of the Shanghai urban climate, especially the "five islands effects" (heat island, wet island, dry island, rain island and turbidity island effects), are studied in this paper.

Secondly, by using the surveyed pollution source data and the monitored air quality data, the distribution of SO 2 and total suspended particle concentration and their seasonal variations, as well as the relationship of air pollution, distribution of factories and meteorological conditions are analysed. Some policies and measures are proposed.