Preferred term
air pollution
Definition
- [Henderson's] any gaseous or particulate matter in the air that is not a normal con­stituent of air or not normally present in such large amounts. It may be the result of human activity, such as sulphur dioxide from burning of coal, and carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides from exhaust emis­sions, or can result from natural causes, such as desert dust, methane and hydrogen sulphide from microbial activity in bogs and volcanic debris in the atmosphere. air quality level of pollution in the air, which may be judged by a variety of criteria such as chemical and physical analysis, medical symptoms, damage to plants and damage to buildings. Air quality is deemed to be high when pollution is low.br /br /[GEMET] Presence in the atmosphere of large quantities of gases, solids and radiation produced by the burning of natural and artificial fuels, chemical and other industrial processes and nuclear explosions.
Broader concept
Scope note
- US LTER controlled vocabulary
Creator
- herbert.schentz@umweltbundesamt.at
In other languages
Arabic
- تلوث الهواء
Bulgarian
- Замърсяване на въздуха
Chinese
- 空气污染
Croatian
- onečišćenje zraka
Czech
- znečištění ovzduší
Danish
- luftforurening
Dutch
- luchtverontreiniging
Estonian
- õhu saastamine (reostamine); õhu saastumine (reostumine)
Finnish
- ilman saastuminen
French
- pollution de l'air
German
- Luftverunreinigung
Greek
- ατμοσφαιρική ρύπανση
Hungarian
- légszennyezés
Italian
- inquinamento dell'aria
Japanese
- 大気汚染
Latvian
- gaisa piesārņojums
Lithuanian
- oro tarša
Norwegian
- luftforurensning
Polish
- zanieczyszczenie powietrza
Portuguese
- poluição do ar
Romanian
- poluare a aerului
Slovak
- znečisťovanie ovzdušia
Slovenian
- onesnaženje zraka
Spanish
- contaminación atmosférica
Swedish
- luftförorening
URI
http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/20389