20.500.12556/DKUM-87760 Assessment of Air Pollution in Different Areas (Urban, Suburban, and Rural) in Slovenia from 2017 to 2021 Air pollution can have a significant effect on human health. The present work is focused on the investigation of daily, monthly, and annual concentration levels of five typical air pollutants (SO2, NO2, NOX, PM10, and PM2.5) in the Republic of Slovenia (RS) from January 2017 to December 2021. The study was conducted at five different monitoring stations of the following kind: traffic (A), industrial (D), and background (B, C, E). The obtained results showed a decline in the average concentrations for all the studied air pollutants through the years, respectively. The daily average SO2 concentrations were the lowest in the year 2021 at location B, which is classified as background location, while the highest were detected in the year 2018 at location E, which is also classified as background location. The average daily concentrations of NO2 and NOX were the highest at location A in the year 2017, whereas the lowest were detected in the year 2010 and 2021. It is believed that those results are a consequence of measures set by the Slovenian government during the COVID-19 pandemic. The PM10 and PM2.5 daily average concentrations were the highest at location A in 2017, while the lowest were observed in the year 2019 at location C. Meteorological parameters (temperature, wind speed, and relative humidity) were studied in addition. In general, the high temperatures in ambient air are responsible for the intense concentrations of air pollutants. It was found in the study results for temperature, wind speed, and relative humidity that no significant difference was shown between studied years. air pollution air quality air pollutants meteorology Republic of Slovenia onesnaževanje zraka kvaliteta zraka onesnaževalci zraka meteorologija Sovenija true false true MDPI Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik https://www.mdpi.com/journal/atmosphere Članek v reviji 2024-03-28 09:30:20 2024-03-28 10:04:22 2024-04-17 08:59:12 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2023 0 0 Str. 1-22 Št. 3, št. članka 578 Letn. 14 March 2023 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 2023-02-23 2023-03-14 2023-03-17 551.508.951:351.777.6 146038787 10.3390/atmos14030578 2073-4433 Ivanovski-2023-Assessment_of_Air_Pollution_in.pdf Ivanovski-2023-Assessment_of_Air_Pollution_in.pdf 1 25DB2F46DA510D6787D783C67EC79281 1bad0e2c9f70153aceab8c602a9622c1e718bc9cf0f6f521c62ccb05a8763ebc f965b24b-ece1-11ee-9311-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=177495 https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4433/14/3/578 0 068e3d96-ece2-11ee-9311-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=177496 Fakulteta za kemijo in kemijsko tehnologijo 0 0 0