Doha Air Quality Monitoring System : Gap Analysis for the Supreme Council for the Environment & Natural Reserves (SCENR)

Our objectives were to identify areas for improvements with the existing Air Quality Monitoring stations and to share ASMA’s experience with SCENR.

Air pollution sources are rapidly increasing in Doha due to rapid development in and around the city:

	Road traffic emissions
	Aircraft emissions (airport is located close to the city)
	Fugitive dust from construction & reclamation activities
	Industrial activities (petrochemical, oil & gas, cement, etc)
	Power plant emissions
	Natural source (occasional sandstorm)

With rapid economic development, comes the associated environmental issues (eg. air quality) which must be managed properly to avoid air pollution & public health issues from happening

An effective Ambient Air Quality Management (AAQM) program requires a reliable, accurate and wide coverage Air Quality Monitoring (AQM) network to establish baseline air quality of the city, to track the trend of deterioration in air quality, to study public health effects & exposure, to identify hot spots (using mobile air monitoring) of air pollution.

City of Doha