Under the Resource Management Act, regional councils and unitary authorities are responsible for managing outdoor air quality. Regional councils must also ensure the national environmental standards for air quality (NES-AQ) are met within their regions. The NES-AQ set limits in outdoor air for PM10, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide and ozone and require councils to monitor areas where these are likely to exceed those limits. Most council air quality monitoring programmes focus on measuring PM10 as this is the pollutant that most often approaches high levels.Councils can use several different tools to meet the requirements of the Resource Management Act and air quality standards. They establish policies and rules to manage particular issues in their regions, issue resource consents for discharges from industrial and trade premises, carry out education campaigns and provide incentives for people to use cleaner forms of home heating. Council monitoring is used to track whether levels of PM10 are reducing in response to council policies and rules designed to lower emissions from home heating. Many council air quality monitoring sites also include meteorological measurements, such as wind speed and direction and temperature. This allows councils to better understand whether air quality is improving or getting worse, or, for example, just being affected by the wind. Ongoing monitoring of air quality in areas where pollutants can be a problem lets councils know if their policies and rules, education campaigns and incentive programmes are working.
Captured data comes from instruments positioned locally and another instrument worn as a wearable air quality monitor device.All other data is captured via third party air quality monitoring sources, such as the Ministry for the Environment.
Using Good Practice for Air Monitoring and Data Management outlined by our very own Ministry for the Environment, the WHO using models created in a very powerful analysis tool called Python.
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Data comes from my own instruments and third-party sources, such as PurpleAir, IQAir, and most importantly, the Ministry for the Environment.
I sure do.My AQY gets calibrated regularly remotely and my Plume Labs Flow2 gets calibrated every time it connects and synchronises with the Plume Labs app.
