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Air Quality over Kirkuk City-iraq Fateh Ghadah

Kirkuk city in north of Iraq, is one of the most important city of Iraqi oil field sources. There is a layer of aerosols and other particulate matter in its atmosphere due to oil fields and refiners, random urban expansion and population growth, the exhaust from huge number of vehicles and heavy traffic and private electric generators. Kirkuk oil refinery industry considered as an important source for air pollutants, where volumes of the released pollutants from these industries were estimated to be in millions of tons per year. Monitoring air quality for Kirkuk city is vital and very important for human health.