Investigation of air pollution over the Persian Gulf and presumption of its influence to the marine atmosphere
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05041064
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for international Scientific Research
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | Field Research |
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| Research Institution | Keio University |
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Principal Investigator |
TANAKA Shigeru Keio University, 理工学部, 助教授 (10137987)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
KISHI Hideko Keio University, 理工学部, 助手 (70051448)
NAKAMURA Masaru Tokyo Meteropolitan Isotope Research Inst., 研究員
NISHIKAWA Masataka National Inst. for Environ. Studies, 化学環境部, 研究員
DOKIYA Yukiko Nateorological College, 教授
TSURUTA Haruo National Inst. for Agro-Environ. Sci., 影響調査研究室, 主任研究員
YUKAI Hitoshi National Inst. for Environ. Studies, 化学環境部, 主任研究員
UTSUNOMIYA Youjirou National Inst. for Environ. Studies, 水土壌圏環境部, 主任研究員
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| Project Period (FY) |
1993
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 1993)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,000,000)
Fiscal Year 1993: ¥4,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,000,000)
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| Keywords | The Persian Gulf / Air Pollution / Nitrogen Oxides / Sulfur Oxides / Marine atmosphere / Long Range Transport / Oil Tanker / Burning Oil Wells |
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| Research Abstract |
The fire of oil wells in Kuwait was occurred after the Gulf War, February, 1991. A large amount of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides was emitted into the air by burning oil wells in Kuwait. These air pollutants were transported and diffused over the Persian Gulf, so that the environmental destruction by the air pollutants was concerned.
In order to study the environmental influence from the burning oil wells, the first atmospheric observation over the Persian Gulf was carried out by our research group, August, 1991, using the oil tanker in which observation instruments were loaded and set. As the result, atmospheric concentrations of non sea salt sulfate(nns-SO_4^<2->) and nitrate(NO_3^-) which were major air pollutants were 10.5 mug/m^3 and 3.7 mug/m^3, respectively, over the Persian Gulf. These concentrations were very high compared to other marine atmosphere and were equal to those in the urban atmosphere. Because a large amount of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides emitted by burning oil wells in Kuwait was transported and oxidized to sulfate and nitrate over the Persian Gulf. This fact showed that a strong influence to the Persian Gulf from the burning oil wells in Kuwait.
In this study, the second atmospheric observation over the Persian Gulf was carried out by using the oil tanker, March, 1994, after the fire oil wells in Kuwait was put off. It can be expected that a lot of important information of the environmental influence from the fire oil wells in Kuwait is obitained by investigating the two atmospheric observation results over the Persian Gulf.
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