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Raeni Chindi Defi Ocvilia
Mareta Asnia

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Global Atmospheric Watch (GAW) Station of Bukit Kototabang is an air quality monitoring station at the equator. In recent times, there has been an increase in concentrations of PM10, SO2, and NO2  in certain months that can reach  extreme  values  or  unhealthy  air.  In  this research, the distribution used is the generalized extreme value (GEV), lognormal, perason V, and gamma    distribution.    The    selection    of    this distribution   will   be   explained   in   the   method section.   The   distribution   will   be   tested   for goodness of fit to get the best distribution that describes  pollutant  data  in  West  Sumatra.  The best-fit  distribution  will  be  used  to  obtain  the probability  of  the  occurrence  of  air  quality  that exceeds   the   ambient   air   quality   standard. Generalized  Extreme  Value  (GEV)  distribution which has been tested using KS and AD is the best-fit distribution in describing the concentration of PM10, SO2, and NO2. Based on average daily concentrations  of  PM10,  SO2,  and  NO2   on  the Global Atmospheric Watch (GAW) Station of Bukit Kototabang, seen from the scatter plot distribution and  probability  results,  it  shows  that  the  air particle  conditions  in  this region  are  in  a  good category. This is proved by the probability results for PM10, only 1% chance of air pollution events with   an   unhealthy   category   will   occur.   The probability of SO2  that is more than 0.05 ppm is only 0.1% the chance of air pollution will exceeds the air quality standard, and the probability of NO2 which is more than 0.005 ppm is only 1%.

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