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Real-time Ecology air-monitoring

Published 18th December 2009 - 2 comments - 1700 views -

My microblogging continues. I want to present you a great achievement of the computer engineeres from Microsoft behind the project about a Washington MAP, showing Air Monitoring Sites. It is just an example. You can investigate the map by a 2D representation, but also on a 3D and see how the air quality changes in the time, on different areas and measured by different parameters. I can only congratulate the Washington State Department of Ecology.

They use nephelometry (NEPH), nucleophosmin (NPM1), Visibility, RTEMP monitoring methods. Try them HERE.

The same style of following the air quality of a certain region is possible to be examined on the London Air Quality Network website. And more, which you can use for your own city.

In Bulgaria, we don`t have such indicating maps online. But we have old-looking website of the Bulgarian Ministry of Environment and Water .

The "NEW", for example, there is:

Information materials relating to Regulation (EC) No 842/2006 on certain fluorinated greenhouse gases and implementing acts: Information for operators of equipment containing fluorinated greenhouse gases (FGGs): Stationary refrigeration air-conditioning and heat pump equipment, which, however, is not bad at all and you have real RULES ONLINE. And useful to the green business.

THANK YOU, EC!

 

Category: Air Quality, International Action, | Tags: air quality, maps, monitoring,



Comments

Boyan Yurukov on 19th December 2009:

I came across a map of Europe with satellite data about air pollution. But not the kind of pollution that you can smell or see, but the kind that gives you cancer after a few years. Chemical pollution. The Cologne-Bonn area, northern France, northern Italy and parts of Spain were bloody red. Bulgaria and Romania were clean with little pale dots on where the coil powerplants are. There may be dust in the air in some cities in BG, but it sure as hell is cleaner that what I’m breathing in Germany.

Lucy Setian on 19th December 2009:

However, even in Bulgaria it would be nice for us to be aware how our air quality changes in the time and how the posteffects of sertain industrial areas develop. It is true that we have less of this problem, but it is normal. I don`t know what is the kind you explain about, for example the NPM1 monitoring follows non-Hodgkin lymphoma, acute promyelocytic leukemia, myelodysplastic syndrome, and acute myelogenous leukemia.

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