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3.1 | 1 | = 2.1.1 CAQI - Common Air Quality Index = |
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3.1 | 6 | |(% style="width:79px" %)Environment|(% style="width:139px" %)2 - Air Quality|(% style="width:666px" %)2.1 - Air Quality at District/ City Scale |
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| 10 | ====== **Description** ====== | ||
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3.1 | 11 | )))|(% style="width:730px" %)In 2005 the Common Air Quality Index (CAQI) was proposed to facilitate the comparison of air quality in European cities in real time16. There are many air quality indices (AQI-s) in use in the world. All are different in concept and presentation and comparing air quality in cities was virtually impossible for the lay public1 . The CAQI and the accompanying website www.airqualitynow.eu or app were introduced as a ‘lingua franca’ solution to overcome this problem17 . |
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| 13 | ===== **Scale as linked to D2.2 framework** ===== | ||
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| 15 | * City | ||
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| 18 | ====== **Data source [ link to data framework]** ====== | ||
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4.1 | 20 | * Measurement/ monitoring |
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| 23 | ====== **Needs** ====== | ||
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3.1 | 25 | * Hourly value NO2, PM10 and O3 (additionally CO, SO2, PM2,5) |
| 26 | * Daily average value NO2, PM10 and O3 (additionally CO, SO2, PM2,5) | ||
| 27 | * Yearly average value (additionally CO, SO2, PM2,5) | ||
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| 30 | ====== **Expected Outputs** ====== | ||
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3.1 | 32 | * Continuously monitored |
| 33 | * numerical value (very low, low, medium, high and very high) | ||
| 34 | * graphic map | ||
| 35 | * quantitative | ||
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| 38 | ====== **Calculation methods** ====== | ||
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3.1 | 40 | * CAQI methodology. |
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| 43 | ====== **Links and references** ====== | ||
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| 45 | * www.airqualitynow.eu | ||
| 46 | * Elshout S van den, Léger K, Nussio F. Comparing urban air quality in Europe in real time, a review of existing air quality indices and the proposal of a common alternative. Environ Int 2008; 34(5):720–6. | ||
| 47 | * Elshout S van den. CITEAIR II project. INTERREG IVC Programme. www.airqualitynow.eu/download/CITEAIR Comparing_Urban_Air_Quality_across_Borders.pdf, 2012. [Accessed oct-2017]. | ||
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