Appraisal of Temporal Variations in Atmospheric Compositions Over South Asia By Addition of Various Pollutants in Recent Decade

Ehsan ul Haq; Farwah Waseem; Abdul Baqi

Authors

Ehsan ul Haq Department of Space Science (University of The Punjab).
Farwah Waseem Department of Space Science (University of The Punjab).
Abdul Baqi Goverment Degree College Usta Muhammad, District Jaffarabad, Balochistan, Pakistan

Keywords:

Anthropogenic, Pollutants, Environmental Remote Sensing, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Geospatial Interactive Online Visualization ANd aNalysis Infrastructure (Giovanni)

Abstract

Atmosphere is an envelope of gasses and aerosols around the planet, 99% of the total mass of atmospheric gases resides within 32km from Earth’s surface in vertical column. From primordial era to current scenario composition of earth endured numerous drastic modifications. In last decade atmosphere had undergone a vigorous change by the addition of many pollutants in both natural and anthropogenic aspects. South Asia is a densely populated; masses here are in a transition state, this developing nation in this region considerably done enough damage to the atmosphere of south Asia by inserting multiple pollutants in atmosphere in a number of anthropogenic activities. These pollutants piled up as a serious danger for people around the globe like Methane (CH4), Sulphur Dioxide (SO2), Carbon Monoxide (CO) Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2), Carbon Dioxide (CO2), Formaldehydes (HCHO) and tropospheric Ozone (O3) etc. “Environmental Remote Sensing” has arisen as a great tool of modern era to get fruitful and precise results to monitor these variations in atmospheric pollutants. The NASA’s (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), Geospatial Interactive Online Visualization ANd aNalysis Infrastructure (Giovanni) system provides access to a wide variety of NASA’s remote sensing data, Variety of environmental data types has permitted the use of Giovanni for different applications to define addition and increase in concentration of various pollutants. Spatio temporal variation of pollutants shows their concentration increased in last decade and in last three years the concentration boosted as compared to last seven years.

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