Ⅰ. Background and Necessity of Research
1. Necessity
o The air quality problem due to fine particulate matter has not improved dramatically despite efforts to reduce emissions of air pollutants since the 2000s.
ㅇ As a result of the continuous implementation of the management policy for fine particulate matter and its precursors, Seoul’s air pollutant emissions and ultrafine particulate matter concentrations continued to decrease until the early 2010s.
ㅇ The concentration of ultrafine particulate matter has been increasing since 2013 and then decreased slightly from 2017, but now it tends to be stagnant with fluctuations around the annual mean PM2.5 concentration of 25μg/m3.

oThere are research attempts to clarify the relationship between fine particulate matter concentration and weather conditions and climate change, but studies to make policy improvements are insufficient.
ㅇ Air quality-related studies to date have only been conducted to determine the impact of climate change on air quality or to predict air quality concentrations according to future climate change. Research to draw policy implications by grasping the relationship between air quality and climate change is still inadequate.
ㅇ In recent fine particulate matter-related policies, a detailed diagnosis of the possibility of achieving the target concentration presented in the ‘Comprehensive Plan on Fine Dust’ which takes into account the recent weather conditions and nvestigations of the relationship between weather and air quality at various time scales(the seasonal management system and emergency reduction mea