Visibility reduction is a barometer of air pollution, which people can notice easily. First of all, we need to measure quantified visibility continuously in order to examine visibility reduction. Prevailing visibility is not practical to measure visibility depending on observer's expertness.
Scattering visibility using Forward Scattering Meter (Belfort Visibility Sensor 6230) has been measured at Kwangan-Dong in Pusan and analysed since July, 1998. According to the analysis, the correlation coefficient(R) between prevailing visibility and scattering visibility was 0.7235.
The visibility appeared that each frequency of poor visibility (under 6㎞) and good visibility(over 25㎞) was 10.6%, 9.7% on summertime in Pusan and the visibility range from 10km to 20km ranked high frequency as a half of whole ranges.
The order of correlation coefficients between visibility and air pollutants are ranking CO, PM10 and NO2, that values are 0.5878, 0.5369, 0.5284 respectively. In meteorological factor, the case of poor visibility presented more weakly wind speed and higher relative humidity than the case of good visibility.
The correlation coefficient between calculated visibility of multiple linear regression model and observed visibility was 0.7215. But the trend of calculated and observed visibility variation was similar with the exception of several good visibility cases.