{"id":123098,"date":"2021-08-03T17:31:40","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T12:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=123098"},"modified":"2021-08-04T16:42:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T11:12:00","slug":"ozone-levels-exceeding-permitted-levels-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ozone-levels-exceeding-permitted-levels-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Ozone levels exceeding permitted levels: study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/Delhi\/ozone-levels-exceeding-permitted-levels-study\/article35642777.ece\"><strong>The Hindu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>A Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) study has found that ozone levels are exceeding the permitted levels even during winter in Delhi-NCR. It is making the smog more \u201ctoxic\u201d.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Key Findings of the Study:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ozone is becoming more widespread<\/strong> in Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) across all seasons.\u00a0<strong>It is contrary to the notion <\/strong>that ozone is a summer phenomenon and is produced photochemically from the interaction between gases in the presence of sunlight.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Increasing Ozone Standards: <\/strong>The number of days not meeting the ozone standards has begun to increase.\u00a0<strong>The city-wide average<\/strong> largely remains within the standard. But the \u2018good\u2019 category days have fallen to 115 days in 2020 which is 24 days less than in 2019 in Delhi.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pandemic effect: <\/strong>Despite the pandemic and lockdowns, more days and locations witnessed a higher and longer duration of ozone spells.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Night-time ozone is higher during the pandemic lockdown and night curfews: <\/strong>Ozone generally disintegrates after sunset. It is because, in the absence of sunlight, NOx further reacts with ozone to neutralize it. But elevated ozone levels have been noticed during nighttime.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>About Ozone:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ozone <\/strong>is a gas composed of three atoms of oxygen. Ozone occurs both in the Earth&#8217;s upper atmosphere and at ground level. It can be good or bad, depending on where it is found.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The stratospheric ozone <\/strong>also called Good Ozone occurs naturally in the upper atmosphere. There, it forms a protective layer that shields us from the sun&#8217;s harmful ultraviolet rays.<\/li>\n<li><strong>On the other hand, <\/strong>Ozone at ground level is a harmful air pollutant, because of its effects on people and the environment, and it is the main ingredient in \u201csmog\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The Hindu What is the News? A Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) study has found that ozone levels are exceeding the permitted levels even during winter in Delhi-NCR. It is making the smog more \u201ctoxic\u201d. Key Findings of the Study: Ozone is becoming more widespread in Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR)&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ozone-levels-exceeding-permitted-levels-study\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ozone levels exceeding permitted levels: study<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[8659,8660],"class_list":["post-123098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-environmental-pollution","tag-ozone-pollution","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700785287,"cached_date":1702905150},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}