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Carbon Monoxide

December 10, 2019July 14, 2020 Salvatore Tarchini

Carbon Monoxide is a gas that can be found in our Atmosphere and its presence is mainly due to the burning of fossils fuels and biomass (e.g forest or bushfires) and human activities in general. It is considered a pollutant … Continue reading Carbon Monoxide

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Aerosols

October 13, 2019March 29, 2020 Salvatore Tarchini

In the frame of air quality monitoring the Copernicus Sentinel-5p mission has been designed to identify the concentration of several atmospheric compounds and species in our atmosphere: one of those data is the Ultraviolet Aerosol Indexes (UVAI). Aerosols are a … Continue reading Aerosols

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Formaldehyde

July 7, 2019December 10, 2019 Salvatore Tarchini

Formaldehyde is an organic compound widely used in many industrial applications, such as the manufacturing of resins, production of disinfectants and biocides or like a tissue fixative. It is present in our atmosphere as a gas and its distribution in … Continue reading Formaldehyde

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The Ozone Hole

June 11, 2019October 17, 2019 Salvatore Tarchini

All life on Earth depends on the existence of a thin shield of a poisonous gas high in the atmosphere: the ozone layer. (Ozone Secretariat, UNEP, “Action on Ozone”) The ozone layer is a region of our atmosphere widely known for … Continue reading The Ozone Hole

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Nitrogen Dioxide Pollution

May 13, 2019October 17, 2019 Salvatore Tarchini

Nitrogen Dioxide is one of the atmospheric gas species retrieved from the data acquired by Sentinel-5P multispectral imaging spectrometer: TROPOMI. Sentinel-5P is the umpteenth spacecraft belonging the the Sentinels constellations and conceived in the framework of the Copernicus Programme. The main goal … Continue reading Nitrogen Dioxide Pollution

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