Home            Contact us            FAQs
    
      Journal Home      |      Aim & Scope     |     Author(s) Information      |      Editorial Board      |      MSP Download Statistics

     Research Journal of Environmental and Earth Sciences

    Abstract
2014(Vol.6, Issue:4)
Article Information:

Variability in Carbon Monoxide Concentration in Kaduna Metropolis, Nigeria

J.D. Ariko, B.A. Sawa and A.A. Ibrahim
Corresponding Author:  B.A. Sawa 
Submitted: November 23, 2013
Accepted: January 10, 2014
Published: April 20, 2014
Abstract:
This study compared Carbon Monoxide concentrations in Urban core and Control station in Kaduna Metropolis, Nigeria. USB-CO data loggers were used for data acquisition for a period of one month. 1hour mean of Carbon Monoxide concentrations for Urban core and Control station were subjected to student “t” test to determine any significant difference in Carbon Monoxide concentration between the two sampled sites. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) test was employed to test the temporal variability in Carbon Monoxide concentrations in the Urban core. The “t” test results showed a significant difference in Carbon Monoxide concentrations, between the Urban core and the Control station. The ANOVA results showed that there is a significant difference in Carbon Monoxide concentrations level between different times of the day. The 1 h mean WHO recommendation for Carbon Monoxide concentration was occasionally exceeded, while the 8 h mean was daily exceeded in the evening periods in Urban core. In the Control station, there was no time both 1 h and 8 h means WHO recommendation were exceeded. These imply that the Rural environment is relatively more livable than the Urban environment in Kaduna metropolis in terms of Carbon Monoxide concentration levels.

Key words:  Carbon monoxide, concentration, peroxy, troposhere, variability, ,
Abstract PDF HTML
Cite this Reference:
J.D. Ariko, B.A. Sawa and A.A. Ibrahim, . Variability in Carbon Monoxide Concentration in Kaduna Metropolis, Nigeria. Research Journal of Environmental and Earth Sciences, (4): 189-194.
ISSN (Online):  2041-0492
ISSN (Print):   2041-0484
Submit Manuscript
   Information
   Sales & Services
Home   |  Contact us   |  About us   |  Privacy Policy
Copyright © 2024. MAXWELL Scientific Publication Corp., All rights reserved