Changes in the Oxygen Content in Urban Air under the Influence of Natural and Anthropogenic Factors

A. S. Ginzburg; Гинзбург А. С.; A. A. Vinogradova; Виноградова А. А.; E. A. Lezina; Лезина Е. А.; M. A. Pomelova; Помелова М. А.

doi:10.31857/S0002351523040065

Changes in the Oxygen Content in Urban Air under the Influence of Natural and Anthropogenic Factors

Authors: Ginzburg A.S.¹, Vinogradova A.A.¹, Lezina E.A.², Pomelova M.A.¹^,3
Affiliations:
1. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences
2. Budgetary Environmental Protection Institution “Mosecomonitoring”
3. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences
Issue: Vol 59, No 4 (2023)
Pages: 437-449
Section: Articles
URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0002-3515/article/view/136929
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S0002351523040065
EDN: https://elibrary.ru/YNGQLA
ID: 136929

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The article analyzes the results of measuring the oxygen content in Moscow in 2017–2021 at three automatic stations for monitoring atmospheric pollution of the “Mosecomonitoring”. Seasonal variations of oxygen content in the city are considered, the issues of compliance of the obtained values with the scale of comfort level for human breathing developed by medical specialists are discussed, measurement data are compared with the results of calculating the oxygen concentration in the air by the magnitude of meteorological parameters. According to the measurements, diurnal variations of the O₂ content in the surface urban air, more pronounced in the warm season, were revealed. The minimum O₂ content is observed in summer in the early morning hours. The main natural and anthropogenic processes that determine the variability of oxygen content in the surface air of a megalopolis at different time scales are discussed.

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oxygen, surface air, large cities, air pollution control stations, gas analyzers, natural and anthropogenic factors

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