Atmospheric Pollution and Meteorological Parameters in the City of Cuiabá-MT

Levi Pires de Andrade1, Marta Cristina de Jesus Albuquerque Nogueira2, Flávia Maria de Moura Santos2, José de

Souza Nogueira3, Carlo Raph de Musis4, and Jonathan W. Zangeski Novais5

1. Environmental Physics, Federal University of Mato Grosso, Federal Institute of Mato Grosso, Brazil

2. Department of Architecture and Urbanism and the Postgraduate Program in Environmental Physics, Federal University of Mato

Grosso, Brazil

3 Institute of Physics, IF and Coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in Environmental Physics, Federal University of Mato

Grosso, Brazil

4. Postgraduate Program in Environmental Physics, IF, UFMT and University of Cuiabá, UNIC, Brazil

5. Postgraduate Program of the University of Cuiabá, UNIC, Brazil

Abstract: In the last decades, Cuiabá experienced a strong population growth and also an intense increase in the number of vehicles. Thus, concentrations of particulate matter have exceeded the tolerable limits indicated by the World Health Organization. This article studies the correlations between meteorological data, Air Temperature, Relative Humidity, Wind Speed, and concentrations of pollutants atmospheric, MP (Particulate Material smaller than 2.5 μm of diameter) and Carbon Monoxide. The study shows that the air quality in Cuiabá is inadequate and correlates with the meteorological variables and the traffic of vehicles in the city. The MP concentration is intense traffic MP = 94.93 μg.m-3 and moderate traffic MP = 57.56 μg.m-3. With this, there is a need to redefine the planning and execution of public policies that minimize these negative impacts.

Key words: pollutants atmospheric, variables meteorological, correlations