State of ambient air quality in a low-income urban settlement of South Africa.

Newton R Matandirotya, Simon D Moletsane, Electdom Matandirotya, Roelof P Burger

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Article in Scientific African, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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An assessment of aerosol optical depth over three AERONET sites in South Africa during the year 2020.Scientific African · 2023
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4 authors.

Newton R MatandirotyaCentre for Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience, Kgotso Development Trust, P. O. Box 5, Beitbridge, Zimbabwe.

Simon D MoletsaneUnit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Private Bag X6001, Potchefstroom 2520, South Africa.

Electdom MatandirotyaDepartment of Space Sciences and Applied Physics, University of Zimbabwe, 630 Churchill Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe.

Roelof P BurgerUnit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Private Bag X6001, Potchefstroom 2520, South Africa.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Air pollution remains one of the leading global environmental-health challenges the world is facing today, particularly within urban environments. amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, air pollution has been brought back into the spotlight as both attack the human respiratory systems. The purpose of the study was to investigate the quality of ambient air in a low-income urban settlement of Jabavu located within the City of Johannesburg during the year 2018. Air pollution and meteorological data were gathered from the South African Air Quality System network. The study focused on three pollutants namely PM

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Identifiers

PMID36248768

DOI10.1016/j.sciaf.2022.e01201

PMCPMC9548639

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