Thick Fog in Jakarta Not Only Caused by Pollution: BMKG
Translator
Ricky Mohammad Nugraha
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Markus Wisnu Murti
Jumat, 6 November 2020 16:09 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) said pollution was not the sole cause of the fog covering the capital on Friday morning, November 6. The agency’s chief of air quality, Suradi, noted the fog was layers of air inversion.
“The fog this morning was not caused by pollution, but was rather air inversion containing a higher accumulation of pollutant particles,” he told Tempo in a text message.
He elaborated that during certain days in the rainy season fogs could form because water vapor near the surface was being held back by the inversion layers, causing water vapor to be stuck underneath the layers.
Suradi maintained that the fog this morning carried more moisture, which was different from fog driven by pollution, which was much drier. The BMKG reported the fog started to disappear at 08:00 Western Indonesia Time (WIB) and had improved the city’s air quality.
