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The Air Quality Scotland Website. & Air Quality Trends for Scotland.

This article discusses recent developments to the Air Quality Scotland website, including a new design, Google Map interface, filter options, and more. It also provides information on air quality trends in Scotland, including NOx, NO2, ozone, and PM10 trends. The article concludes with usage statistics for 2008 and 2009.

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The Air Quality Scotland Website. & Air Quality Trends for Scotland.

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  1. The Air Quality Scotland Website.&Air Quality Trends for Scotland. Paul Willis March 18th 2009

  2. Recent Developments to the Air Quality Scotland Website.

  3. Web Site Launched April 2nd 2007

  4. Recent New Developments • New home page design. • Google MapTM interface to latest automatic monitoring data. • Filter by pollutant or site environment. • Post-code region search for: • Map zoom. • Local search list of monitoring sites. • Alternate selection through drop-down lists of open/closed sites. • Improved tabs for: • Latest data. • Graphing. • Site photos. • New tab for statistics view/print. • Monitoring site location tool.

  5. Site Location Tool (Members Area)

  6. Database Updates & Site Information • New sites are added to the database once agreement is reached with the local authorities. • Site photos and co-ordinates are added as soon as AEA visit, or they are provided by the local authority. • Updates to the AURN sites are made as required (e.g. new PM instruments and/or site/instrument changes.) • Ratified data (or any improved provisional data) load automatically to the web site from AEA’s data management software. • Statistics are automatically recalculated every night: • Daily, Monthly & Annual Means etc. • All exceedence statistics

  7. Reminder - Air Quality Bulletins by E-mail • Users can register on the web site at http://www.scottishairquality.co.uk/bulletin_reg.php • You can choose to receive a bulletin by e-mail at any time of the day • Latest hour. • 24-hour summary. • Including forecast. • All Scotland or just your local area. • Choose to receive all the time, or just if the measurements or forecast are moderate/high. • Simple graphs are linked to the site/pollutant lists in the bulletin.

  8. Menus for Customisable Bulletins

  9. Bulletin Format

  10. Local Air Quality Management • Updated monthly but please tell us if you spot any mistakes.

  11. Future Developments? • Pages for younger school children? • Links to emissions data? • Text-only pages for dial-up or PDA users? • Photo upload tool (Members Area)? • More help with diffusion tube QA/QC? • Know-and-respond SMS text or e-mail alerts for High Air Pollution Forecasts or Episodes ?

  12. Air Quality Trends for Scotland.

  13. NOx Trends Only Glasgow Kerbside till 2001

  14. NO2 Trends Only Glasgow Kerbside till 2001

  15. Ozone Trends

  16. PM10 Trends

  17. Any Questions ?

  18. Non-automatic Monitoring Data • Still awaiting site co-ordinates from some local authorities. • Example of display of diffusion tube site locations and graphing currently under development

  19. Glasgow University Indicators Paper • Prepared by Anna Lisa Bondi, Duncan Lee and Marian Scott of the Department of Statistics. • A review of the Scottish Trends analysis methodology and results. • A draft paper based on hourly PM10 downloaded from the website has been provided and concludes the following: • Results are very similar to those produced by AEA (within 1 g/m3) • Small differences are probably due to rounding method and treatment of negative TEOM data. • The indicator is robust (4 g/m3 range)if 4 sites are used, and extremely robust (1.4 g/m3 range) if seven sites are used.

  20. Usage Statistics 2008

  21. Usage statistics 2009

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