BIOL 4673 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Rush Hour, Coloureds, Tropospheric Ozone

• School: Acadia University
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIOL 4673
• Professor: Alexandre G R O S J E A N

Document Summary

Lecture 2 : airborne hazards and human health: different types of radiation, natural radiation (from space) radiation that earth releases, radiation released during natural disaster events. Wednesday, january 17 2018: man made radiation. Case study 1 : london smog, 1952: a man guides a london bus through thick fog with a flaming torch during 1952 great. The relationship between smoke and sulfur dioxide pollution and deaths during the great. London smog, december 1952, source: wilkins, 1954: figure shows the average smoke and sulphur dioxide levels for 12 london sites and the relationship with deaths recorded during the smog period in december 1952. The peak in the number of deaths coincided with the peak in both smoke and sulphur dioxide pollution levels: many people died from exposure to sulfuric gasses and particulate matter, estimate is. 1: natural species removed from the area, clean air acts, air pollution started to be regulated in britain and other countries.