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- Resource ID
- bd46ff26-8883-11eb-988c-0050568ea38e
- Title
- Air quality monitoring stations in the Alpine Convention (2016-2018)
- Date
- June 1, 2020, 7:21 a.m., Creation
- Abstract
- 234 monitoring stations operating during the 2016-2018 period were identified thanks to EEA European Air Quality Portal in the in the Alpine region for measuring the following pollutants: PM10, PM2.5, nitrogen oxides (NOx) including nitrogen dioxide(NO2), sulphur dioxide (SO2), benzene (C6H6), ozone (O3), lead (Pb), Benzo(a)pyrene (BaP), nickel (Ni), arsenic (As), carbon monoxide (CO), cadmium (Cd). Two-thirds of these stations are located in suburban or urban environments and one-third in rural environments.
This map illustrates their geographical distribution, together with that of 39 additional stations belonging to the local Swiss monitoring networks and operating in the same period. Of all these stations, 14% and 78% are located at altitudes higher than 1,000 m.a.s.l. and 1,500 m.a.s.l. respectively.
Adapting an existing methodology, it has been estimated that approximately 86% of these stations displayed are situated in valleys (see the original text of the RSA9 for details).
- Edition
- --
- Responsible
- INERIS
- Point of Contact
- laure.malherbe@ineris.fr
- Purpose
- This map was elaborated within the activities for drafting the 8th Report on the State of the Alps of the Alpine Convention on the topic of air quality.
- Maintenance Frequency
- notPlanned
- Type
- vector
- Restrictions
- No restriction are listed
- License
- AC_Limited usage license
- Language
- eng
- Temporal Extent
- Start
- Jan. 1, 2016, 10:25 a.m.
- End
- Dec. 31, 2018, 10:25 a.m.
- Supplemental Information
- Sources :
- European sampling point metadata reported by countries and downloaded from http://aided.apps.eea.europa.eu, January 2020.
- sampling point metadata of Monaco provided directly by Direction de l'Environnement, Gouvernement Princier de la Principauté De Monaco, March 2020.
- Sampling point metadata reported by Switzerland (NABEL network) and downloaded from http://aided.apps.eea.europa.eu , January 2020.
- additional sampling point metadata provided directly by the Swiss federal, cantonal and municipal air hygiene agencies, March 2020.
- Data Quality
- Quality assurance and quality control procedures, documented in the EEA’s Quality Management System (QMS).
- Extent
-
- x0: 3636041.000000000000000
- x1: 4457059.000000000000000
- y0: 1913401.750000000000000
- y1: 2422795.000000000000000
- Spatial Reference System Identifier
- EPSG:3034
- Keywords
- no keywords
- Category
- Air quality
- Regions
-
Alps