Monitoring of Atmospheric Pollutant Concentrations in the City of Dakar, Senegal
Open Journal of Air Pollution, 2021, 10, 18-30 https://www.scirp.org/journal/ojap ISSN Online: 2169-2661 ISSN Print: 2169-2653 Monitoring of Atmospheric Pollutant Concentrations in the City of Dakar, Senegal Baïdy Sow1*, Bertrand Tchanche1, Ibrahima Fall1, Saliou Souaré2, Aminata Mbow-Diokhané2 1Department of Physics, Alioune Diop University, Bambey, Senegal 2Centre de Gestion de la Qualité de l’Air (CGQA), Dakar, Senegal How to cite this paper: Sow, B., Tchanche, Abstract B,, Fall, I., Souaré, S. and Mbow-Diokhané, A. (2021) Monitoring of Atmospheric Pol- The lack of data on air quality monitoring and neglected and overlooked pol- lutant Concentrations in the City of Dakar, lutant emissions in the transportation and industrial sectors are motives for Senegal. Open Journal of Air Pollution, 10, the government of Senegal to set up, in 2009, an air quality management cen- 18-30. https://doi.org/10.4236/ojap.2021.101002 ter, the CGQA (Centre de Gestion de la Qualité de l’Air). Air quality moni- toring at CGQA deals with mainly six pollutants: carbon monoxide (CO), ni- Received: January 22, 2021 trogen oxides (NOx) (with nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and nitrogen monoxide Accepted: March 26, 2021 (NO)), sulfur dioxide (SO2), ground-level ozone (O3), Benzene-Toluene-Xylenes Published: March 29, 2021 (BTX), and particulate matters (PM) with diameters less than 10 µm (PM ) 10 Copyright © 2021 by author(s) and and 2.5 µm (PM2.5). The concentration levels of gaseous pollutants (CO, O3, Scientific Research Publishing Inc. NO2 and SO2) in the city generally remain below the limit value set by the This work is licensed under the Creative WHO (World Health Organization).
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