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Air pollutant index in Malaysia: A case study in 10 days cycle

Authors :
Farisha Nordin
M. K. Fadzly
Izzah Rashid
Source :
AIP Conference Proceedings.
Publication Year :
2018
Publisher :
Author(s), 2018.

Abstract

The historical perspective of haze phenomenon maintains to interest contemporary air quality among the researchers. There was a sharp rise were recorded in hospital admissions and visits to primary care physicians, but in the year 1952, recent re-analysis2 of the mortality data indicates the number of deaths was undervalue and was nearer 12,000 [1]. An alertness of the source and the hazard of smoke haze spread, Southeast Asian governments increasingly came under pressure from the public and civil society at the national, regional, and international level to address this haze phenomenon issue. By doing this air pollution research, residents in Malaysia will know about the haze phenomenon which can cause air pollution and also which state is the worst air pollution that has been recorded by Air Pollution Index (API) in 10 days.

Details

ISSN :
0094243X
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
AIP Conference Proceedings
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........cd591c05c751f2e0e26e7bf6f2b74364
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5066810