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Air Quality 100% open

Great Britain

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Note: The methodology used in the Global Open Data Index has changed over time; significantly so between 2015 and 2016. For this reason, the results are not directly comparable over time.

What data is expected?

Data about the daily mean concentration of air pollutants, especially those potentially harmful to human health. Data should be available for all air monitoring stations or air monitoring zones in a country. The Index focusses on key pollutants as defined by the World Health Organisation. See our methodology section for more information.

Particulate matter (PM)
Sulphur oxides (SOx)
Nitrogen oxides (NOx)
Carbon monoxide (CO)
Ozone
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs)
Available per air monitoring station/zone

How open is the data?

It's openly licenced
It's in an open and machine-readable format
It's downloadable at once
It's up-to-date
It's publicly available
It's available free of charge

Reviewer comments

Accepted with one correction: Data may be downloaded in bulk by multi-selecting data on the link provided. Not a very user friendly way for bulk data, but the feature is present whatsoever. But we may discuss this, as the 256 column limit is one that disallows for bulk data download.

Meta data

Data location	https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/data/ - UK-AIR Data Archive
Data licence	https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/data/
Data format	CSV
Reviewer	Ricardo Alanís
Submitters	Owen Boswarva
Last modified	Mon Dec 05 2016 20:54:25 GMT+0000 (UTC)

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Reviewers

Ricardo Alanís

Submitters

Owen Boswarva

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