Table of Contents
- 1 How does air quality affect your life?
- 2 Why air quality is important for humans and the environment?
- 3 How is air quality data used?
- 4 What are ways to improve air quality?
- 5 What is air quality based on?
- 6 How can AirData help you measure air quality?
- 7 What are the summary values in the air quality report?
- 8 What is the EPA’s air quality score?
How does air quality affect your life?
The health effects of air pollution are serious – one third of deaths from stroke, lung cancer and heart disease are due to air pollution. Microscopic pollutants in the air can slip past our body’s defences, penetrating deep into our respiratory and circulatory system, damaging our lungs, heart and brain.
Why air quality is important for humans and the environment?
It provides air quality standards and objectives for key air pollutants, which are designed to protect human health and the environment. Air pollution can cause both short term and long term effects on health and many people are concerned about pollution in the air that they breathe.
What does air quality good mean?
Good: Air quality is good and poses little or no risk. Moderate: Air quality is acceptable; however, there may be some health concern for a small number of unusually sensitive people.
How is air quality data used?
It tells how clean or polluted the air is, and what associated health effects might be a concern, especially for ground-level ozone and particle pollution. Think of the AQI as a yardstick that runs from 0 to 500. The higher the AQI value, the greater the level of air pollution and the greater the health concern.
What are ways to improve air quality?
On Days when High Particle Levels are Expected, Take these Extra Steps to Reduce Pollution:
- Reduce the number of trips you take in your car.
- Reduce or eliminate fireplace and wood stove use.
- Avoid burning leaves, trash, and other materials.
- Avoid using gas-powered lawn and garden equipment.
Why is the air quality bad?
There are many factors that can lead to poor air quality, but the two most common are related to elevated concentrations of ground-level ozone or particulate matter. Sunshine, rain, higher temperatures, wind speed, air turbulence, and mixing depths all affect pollutant concentrations.
What is air quality based on?
Air quality is measured with the Air Quality Index, or AQI. The AQI works like a thermometer that runs from 0 to 500 degrees. However, instead of showing changes in the temperature, the AQI is a way of showing changes in the amount of pollution in the air. Air quality is a measure of how clean or polluted the air is.
How can AirData help you measure air quality?
Here are a few basic air quality concepts that could help you when using AirData. Monitoring Data – Ambient (outdoor) concentrations of pollutants are measured at more than 4000 monitoring stations owned and operated mainly by state environmental agencies.
What does the air quality index (AQI) measure?
Think of the AQI as a yardstick that runs from 0 to 500. The higher the AQI value, the greater the level of air pollution and the greater the health concern. For example, an AQI value of 50 or below represents good air quality, while an AQI value over 300 represents hazardous air quality.
What are the summary values in the air quality report?
The summary values include maximum, 90th percentile and median AQI, the count of days in each AQI category, and the count of days when the AQI could be attributed to each criteria pollutant. Air Quality Statistics Report – This report shows yearly summaries of air pollution values for a city or county.
What is the EPA’s air quality score?
The EPA has defined a set of standards for air pollution, tests are performed to analyze air quality and the results are assigned a number. This number is based on a score of 100 with 100 being the cut off before air quality is considered unhealthy.