Impacts of Some Meteorological Factors on Air Pollution of Konya City Centre

Untidy urbanization and industrialization with rapidly increasing world's population has brought number of environmental problems. One of the most important effects in these problems is air pollution. The air is a platform that may pollute such as water and soil source. A person can live in case of absence of water for days but cannot live more than a few minutes without breathing stop. Therefore, the air is the most sacred rights with all the components in human life. Any concentration of air pollution in the region does not depend on only bring about pollution from sources on the amount of pollution but depends on also the current meteorological conditions. Konya province has located in cold weather region and mostly spending low quality fuels for heating systems. On the other hand, Konya metropolitan has high air population and many industrial factories which have produced heavy pollution during winter periods. This pollution may affect human health some days in winter time. The aim of this study is investigation of relationship between the concentrations of sulphur dioxide and some meteorological parameters in the city centre of Konya province that air pollution is become the first level pollution problem in recent years in Turkey