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Climate change and air pollution interactions in the Republic of Belarus
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Alena Kamarouskaya and Aliksandr Behanski
Republican Center for Radiation Control and Environtmental Monitoring, Minsk, Belarus; clim@by.mecom.ru
The indexes of air monitoring are used for the quantification of
regional impacts of environmental pollution in the context of
global climate change. It gives the opportunity to compare past
and recent climate variability and change with the impacts of
air pollution.
Since 1989 it has been the longest period of temperature rising.
The only time, when the average annual temperature was a
little lower than normal meaning was in 1996, other years this
parameter was much higher. During the warmest years – 1989,
1990, 1999, 2000 – the meaning of temperature added 1,5ºС to
its normal value.
The period of active temperature rising (at the end of XX
century) had no effect on the annual amount and precipitation
distribution. The amount of precipitation fall wasn't equal in
different observation periods during the year. These features in
addition to temperature rising lead to droughty conditions.
Due to air monitoring data this period was notified as the most
complicated because of smog processing. This process took
place in Belarus in 1992 and 2002 (August and September) and
was accompanied with rising of total solid particles’ (TSP)
concentrations, concentrations of nitrogen oxide (NOx), carbon
oxide (CO) and benzapiren BaP. The influence of smog
situation was the greatest on the background territories:
concentrations of TSP exceeded WHO standards. At the same
time rising of alkalinity precipitation was noticed.