The UK’s air quality management policy is largely devolved to local authorities, who are responsible to monitor and track local air quality, to check that national air quality targets are achieved. If it looks as though an area’s air pollution may miss the national target, the local authori...
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The air quality index is a metric used for reporting relative outdoor air quality and air pollution levels in a given area. Maps of local AQI values are updated every 8 or 24 hours, depending on the pollutant, and provide an indication of the groups of p
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Air pollution is the world's top killer, a new global air quality index revealed last year. According to the World Health Organization(WHO), 4. 2 million people die each year from outdoor air pollution, and 91percent of the world's population live in a place that exceeds the WHO's gui...
Urban activities, particularly vehicle traffic, are contributing significantly to environmental pollution with detrimental effects on public health. The ability to anticipate air quality in advance is critical for public authorities and the general publi
To address the incomparability of the large number of existing air quality indices, we propose a new normalization method that is suited to directly compare air quality indices based on the common European World Health Organization (WHO) air quality guidelines for NO2, O3, and PM10. Using this...
quality of air when compared to the rest of the country, it still stands to reason that there will be many sources of smoke and pollution that are causing the PM2.5 levels to rise in a city that could or should potentially see a year round WHO target rating if it were to address ...
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Metrics matter because you can't manage what you don't measure. Making decisions based on facts rather than emotions or "gut feel" is the only way to manage a situation effectively. That's why an air quality index (AQI) is an invaluable tool in the relen