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GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS AND MAPPING OF OZONE OVER IRAQ | ||
| Bulletin of the Iraq Natural History Museum | ||
| Article 1, Volume 13, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 9-21 | ||
| Author | ||
| Hussain Zaydan Ali | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) measures the reflected solar radiation in the ultraviolet and visible part in the spectral range that is between 270 and 500 nm, using two channels with a spectral resolution of about 0.5 nm. Ground-level tropospheric ozone is one of the air pollutants of most concern. In the troposphere, near the Earth's surface, human activities lead to ozone concentrations several times higher than the natural background level. To evaluate the ozone distribution over Iraq, the ozone data from OMI were analyzed using geostatistical techniques. Theoretical spherical models provided the best fit for all monthly experimental variograms. The parameters of these variograms (sill, range and nugget) were evaluated. Finally, predictive ozone maps were derived for all points of the study area, by use of geostatistical algorithms (kriging). High prediction accuracy was obtained in all cases as cross-validation showed. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Pollution; Geostatistical Analysis; Kriging; tropospheric ozone mapping | ||
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