Impacts of air pollution and climate on materials in Athens, GreeceShow others and affiliations
2017 (English)In: Atmospheric Chemistry And Physics, ISSN 1680-7316, E-ISSN 1680-7324, Vol. 17, no 1, p. 439-448Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
For more than 10 years now the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, has contributed to the UNECE (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe) ICP Materials (International Co-operative Programme on Effects on Materials including Historic and Cultural Monuments) programme for monitoring the corrosion/soiling levels of different kinds of materials due to environmental air-quality parameters. In this paper we present the results obtained from the analysis of observational data that were collected in Athens during the period 2003-2012. According to these results, the corrosion/soiling of the particular exposed materials tends to decrease over the years, except for the case of copper. Based on this long experimental database that is applicable to the multi-pollutant situation in the Athens basin, we present dose-response functions (DRFs) considering that "dose" stands for the air pollutant concentration, "response" for the material mass loss (normally per annum) and "function", the relationship derived by the best statistical fit to the data.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2017. Vol. 17, no 1, p. 439-448
Keywords [en]
atmospheric pollution, climate, environmental quality, pollution effect, Athens [Attica], Attica, Greece
National Category
Natural Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-31071DOI: 10.5194/acp-17-439-2017Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85009178429OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-31071DiVA, id: diva2:1138232
2017-09-042017-09-042023-05-22Bibliographically approved