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Department of Meteorology Maldives Implementation of Male’ Declaration on Control and Prevention of Air Pollution and its Likely Transboundary Effects.

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1 Department of Meteorology Maldives Implementation of Male’ Declaration on Control and Prevention of Air Pollution and its Likely Transboundary Effects for South Asia MALDIVES Refresher course 25 – 29 March 2008 MALDIVES

2 Department of Meteorology Maldives MALDIVES Introduction  Location: About 500Km southwest of the Indian tip  Consists about 1192 Islands ( biggest island is not more than 3sq km.  Climate: Equatorial, Warm and Humid  Experience two monsoon dry NE monsoon (Jan-March) and wet SW monsoon ( May-Nov), April and Nov are transition.  Non industrial, electricity provides by diesel generators  Five airports, many boats, vessels for marine transport, relatively more vehicles in the densely populated capital city.

3 Department of Meteorology Maldives MALDIVES Institutional Arrangements NIA Department of Meteorology (DoM) Monitoring NFP Ministry of Energy and Water (MEEW) Stakeholder forum Advisory committee

4 Department of Meteorology Maldives MALDIVES Hanimaadhoo Island

5 Department of Meteorology Maldives MALDIVES ►Wet only collector is operational, Filters and samples are sent to MISU, ► In Addition of NO 2 and SO 2, O 3 filters are started to expose in May 2007 ► All Three years DATA is received. ► Exposed filters are send to IVL, DATA receives. W.Collector & P. Sampler

6 CORROSION RACK NO 2, SO 2,O 3, NO 3,HNO 3, PM, Fe,Zn,Cu,Painted, Lime stone Department of Meteorology Maldives

7 Department of Meteorology Maldives MALDIVES SO 2

8 Department of Meteorology Maldives MALDIVES NO 2

9 Department of Meteorology Maldives MALDIVES Ave SO 2, NO 2

10 Department of Meteorology Maldives MALDIVES pH

11 Department of Meteorology Maldives MALDIVES SO 4

12 Department of Meteorology Maldives MALDIVES NO 3

13 Department of Meteorology Maldives MALDIVES Average pH

14 Department of Meteorology Maldives MALDIVES Difficulties  Lack of trained technical staffs in the field.  Long term training is not available within the country.

15 Department of Meteorology Maldives MALDIVES Future Plan  Establishing Network for pH monitoring  Start monitoring PM concentration in the capital city  Start monitoring trace gases in central and southern part of the country.

16 Thank You


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