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Air Quality Data Template

This document provides a template for collecting air quality data to be published in the WHO ambient air quality database. It requests annual mean values for PM2.5, PM10 and NO2 from 2012 onward by monitoring station or city. Time series and daily values are also requested if available. Data submitted will include location, measurements, population details and references. Guidelines define acceptable station types as urban, suburban or rural areas where people live or work.

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Air Quality Data Template

This document provides a template for collecting air quality data to be published in the WHO ambient air quality database. It requests annual mean values for PM2.5, PM10 and NO2 from 2012 onward by monitoring station or city. Time series and daily values are also requested if available. Data submitted will include location, measurements, population details and references. Guidelines define acceptable station types as urban, suburban or rural areas where people live or work.

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WHO Ambient air quality database - Data collection template

v0, 22 May 2017

This spreadsheet is a data collection template that aims to collect air quality data for publication in the WHO air quality database:
http://www.who.int/phe/health_topics/outdoorair/databases/cities/en/

What is needed:

Annual mean for PM2.5, PM10 and NO2 for the most recent year, but no older than 2012.
Please provide (preferrably) values by station, and/or values by city or locality.

Time series of annual mean for PM2.5, PM10 and NO2 - if available
Please provide (preferrably) values by station, and/or values by city or locality.

Daily values used to derive the annual mean, for PM2.5, PM10 and NO2 - if available
Please provide (preferrably) values by station, and/or values by city or locality.

Note: The following data would be made publicly available through the WHO air quality database:
Mean annual air quality by city or locality and by country, with date, type of monitoring stations (in terms of location), temporal coverage, and reference.

Location of this template for download:

Please send your data to: [email protected]

World Health Organization, Geneva


WHO Ambient air quality database - Data collection template
Location of this template for download:

Data entry sheet by station (fictitious example)

Notes 1 2 2 3 2 4 5 6 7 8
Type of location
of monitoring
Annual Annual Reference stations Website of
mean, Temporal coverage mean, Temporal coverage Measurement Temporal coverage for Reference for reference for air Geographic
ug/m3 Year (% of days per year) ug/m3 Year (% of days per year) techniques for PM2.5 Annual mean, ug/m3 Year (% of days per year) Population population air quality quality data coordinates
Country City/locality Station PM10 PM10 PM10 PM 2.5 PM2.5 PM2.5 NO2 NO2 NO2 (if available) (if available) (if available) latitude longitude

Chile Copiapo Copiapo Sivica 24 2014 73% 19 2014 87% 129,100 Urban background Sistema de Informhttp://sinca.mma.gob-27.3664 -70.3331

Chile Santiago Cerrillos 5,128,000 Urban background Sistema de Informhttp://sinca.mma.gob


Cerro Navia
El Bosque
Indeqpendencia
Pudahuel

Chile Andacollo

Notes
1 Name of the station
2 % of days per year covered by the station
3 Measurement techniques for PM2.5 (e.g BAM, TEOM)
4 The population in the city or locality, including the reference
5 Reference for the population
6 The location/ type of stations should cover: urban, sub-urban and rural areas, residential and commercial area. Urban traffic can be included, as long as the station is located in
a neighbourhood where people work or live.
Excluded should be : industrial locations (unless people also live there), 'hot spots' (incineration site, motorway, heavy industry, etc)
7 Source/reference for the monitored data (e.g. annual report on air quality from the MoE, website of the country network of monitoring stations, etc)
8 Coordinates in decimal degrees N and E (or degrees, or UTM); provide address of station if coordinates are not available

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