Sentences with phrase «in urban smog»

While the effects of some pollutants like PM2.5 in urban smog are well known, significant data gaps remain for other disturbances.

Ozone is the primary ingredient in urban smog, generated when sunlight hits pollutants spewed by cars, chemical plants, industrial boilers, refineries, and other sources.

Not exact matches

Virtual floods, smart highways and smog sucking towers: how can we examine and activate solutions to improve daily life in urban environments?

The move comes as car makers and investors are pumping in billions of dollars into the so - called new energy vehicle sector in China, the world's biggest auto market, which is preparing to roll out tough norms to promote the sector to fight urban smog and cut dependence on imported oil.

I walked from that «Christian» gathering wanting to bathe away the residue of the poisoned air that hung in the room like urban smog.

U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists grew weeds in three sites: an organic farm in western Maryland, a park in a suburb of Baltimore, and in downtown Baltimore, which is choked with smog and about 3 to 4 degrees warmer than the surrounding countryside because of the urban heat island effect.

THE sheer number of particles in urban air pollution may be the critical factor that pushes up death rates from heart and lung problems when cities are hit by smog, according to Anthony Seaton, professor of environmental and occupational medicine at the University of Aberdeen.

«Ozone and nitric oxide are both contributors to urban smog, so depending on how well a city is able to mitigate air pollution, ethanol may not be the «green fuel» that it is often called,» said Geiger, professor of chemistry in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.

And in, population - dense urban areas - where enough suspended particles can be amassed - it contributes to the formation of the visible haze called smog.

Breathing in smog, while inevitable in certain urban and industrial areas, can irritate the cardiovascular system and cause other health problems.

For starters, if you live in an urban area, you may notice smog or haze fogging up summer skies.

Although air pollution levels are generally higher in large, urban areas like Detroit, its generally safe to run anywhere unless theres a smog alert, says Dr. Roberts.

In 1981 Denny moved to Los Angeles, where the urban environment and often smog - hazed natural light inspired him to develop a new aesthetic featuring large monochrome thick - layered acrylic surfaces on which concentrated clusters of coloured scratchings rest on thin horizontals.

Lowry's signature idiom is genre - painting or urban landscape, notably pictures of «matchstick» figures drawn against industrial buildings, often bathed in white smog.

Taller chimney stacks and the banning of heavy industry from urban areas were just two of the measures introduced and, consequently, fewer smogs were recorded in the UK during the 1960s and 1970s.

CA, NY, MA and other states have had Zero - Emission Vehicle programs since the early 1990s because battery electric vehicles in those states, taking into account power plants, are far cleaner than gasoline cars in reducing urban air pollution and smog.

During hot, humid summer weather, many urban areas experience heat inversions — cold air in the upper atmosphere holds much warmer air close to the ground, sustaining higher - than - average temperatures and trapping smog.

UHI can affect the climatic comfort of the urban population, potentially related to health, labour productivity and leisure activities; there are also economic effects, such as the additional cost of climate control within buildings, and environmental effects, such as the formation of smog in cities and the degradation of green spaces.