Week 3 – Monitoring Air Quality and Health, and Supporting Policy
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This case study looks at air quality in Rome with Antonio Amoroso from ARPA Lazio. Italy is among the top countries in Europe with the largest health impacts attributed to nitrogen dioxide exposure.
This this topic, Pepijn Veefkind talks about aerosols and air quality and the effects on human health.
This topic discusses the use of satellites and models for monitoring and forecasting aerosols and pollutants.
In this topic, Dr David Diner goes into detail about atmospheric aerosols and how they are monitored from space.
This topic looks at the trace gases formaldyhyde and Glyoxal and their impact on air quality and health.
This topic explains how Ammonia is monitored in the atmosphere using satellites, and it looks at the sources of Ammonia that are contributing to air pollution.
Atmospheric in situ observations can be provided by surface stations, aircraft and radiosondes.
This topic is about the High Altitude and Long Rage Research Aircraft (HALO), an aircraft for atmospheric research.
Open EO data provides access to scientific data beyond the specialised scientific community.
Week 3 end of week exercise using the World Air Quality (Index) Project.
