Abstract: Thesis (M.Sc.) -- İstanbul Technical University, Institute of Science and Technology, 2018 ; Industrialization, has been increasing air pollution. In recent decades, the most industrialized and populated cities began to investigate this issue and estimating the cost of health effects for the governments. These researches reasoned the goverments to make new legislation and standards which eventually reduced the air pollution and health effects of it afterward. New York, Paris, London, Seoul and Istanbul are successful examples of these practices. Iran and Turkey, have almost the same population of 80 million individuals. Such large populations make a high demand in energy production, as some days in winter of 2017, Iran natural gas consumption reached the EU consumption. On the other hand, gasoline consumption in Iran is around 100 ML/d and in Turkey is 68ML/d. Meanwhile, climate change is a serious concern in both countries, which is one of the reasons for dust events in the region. Ambient PM is the sixth Global Burdon of Disease risk factor responsible for premature death of 4.1M individuals in 2016. Studies on PM health effects, playing the key role in policymaking. To observe and analyze the air pollution trend, ground measurement data is needed. This study, used the very recently published Iran nationwide ground measurements from the years 2015 to 2017. Since the population in both countries are high and spatially distributed, the number of ground measurement stations are not enough. Thus, spatially more complete remote sensing data was also used in this study. Although PM remote sensing, is still under developments since the instruments only measure AOD and not PM directly. To convert AOD to PM, researchers mostly use GEOS (Goddard Earth Observing System) chemical transport model which first used in 2011 by. For satellite retrievals, dataset V4.GL.02 is chosen in this thesis. This product obtained from three different instruments and with Geos-Chem transport model converted to PM2.5. The product has dust ...
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