Detection of the Yorkshire power stations from space: an air quality perspective
Detection of the Yorkshire power stations from space: an air quality perspective
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从太空探测约克郡发电站:空气质量视角
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2016
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M. Provod
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R. Pope;M. Provod
W ea th er – F eb ru ar y 20 16 , V ol . 7 1, N o. 2 (hourly concentrations), the WHO NO2 safe exposure limit of 104.6ppb (approximately 200μg/m3; WHO, 2014) was rarely exceeded as a result of power station emissions alone. They suggested that the risk of exceeding the WHO NO2 limit was low and only likely in the case of a power station NOx plume coinciding with an extreme ozone event. In Yorkshire, UK, there are three large power stations: Drax, Eggborough and Ferrybridge. They have generating capacities of 3960MW (Drax, 2014), 2000MW (Eggborough Power Limited, 2014) and 980MW (SSE, 2014), respectively. Figure 1(a) shows average UK tropospheric column NO2 from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) between 2005 and 2011. The peak concentrations breathing and cardiovascular problems. NO2 can cause reduced lung function and PM can lead to increased mortality and morbidity (WHO, 2014). Power station emissions (particularly NO2, SO2 and PM) can have a significant impact on regional and local air quality. In Beijing, Hao et al. (2007) estimate that power stations emit 49, 27 and 11% of city SO2, NOx (NO + NO2) and PM10, respectively. Mauzerall et al. (2005) show that emissions of NOx from larger point sources (e.g. power stations) can significantly influence surface O3 concentrations leeward of the source, which can be detrimental to human health in populated regions. Webb and Hunter (1998) found that between 1992 and 1996, in the short-term Richard Pope1,2 and Miroslav Provod1 1School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds 2National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO), Univ ersity of Leeds