Air Quality Index - Percentage of Good Hours, Alberta

Description

This Alberta Official Statistic summarizes annual results of calculations of air quality index values as calculated by quality-assured and quality-controlled hourly ambient air quality data. It reports on the percentage of the time the air quality index was rated as Good. It also provides an overview of the index, the substances that are used in its calculation, and the causes of poor air quality both in a general sense, and with specific reference to actual events in the years presented.

Updated

July 6, 2015

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Title and Dataset Information

Date Modified

2015-07-06

Update Frequency

Annual

Publisher / Creator Information

Creator

Environment and Parks

Publisher

Environment and Parks

Subject Information

Topic

Environment

Start Date

2010-01-01

End Date

2014-12-31

Spatial Coverage

Alberta, Selected Cities

Resource Dates

Date Created

2015-05-13

Date Added to catalogue

2015-05-13T19:25:51.248726

Date Issued

2015-05-21

Date Modified

2015-07-06

Audience information

General Public

Language

English (Canadian)

Identifiers

Usage / Licence

Usage Considerations

These statistics are based on results of a series of calculations performed on hourly data, and aggregated over a calendar year. As such, year-to-year differences should not be interpreted as indicators of trends in air quality and should not be extrapolated into the future. Results should not be taken as indicators of healthiness of living in the cities presented on.

Data obtained from CASA Data Warehouse.

Monitoring Stations Map: http://esrd.alberta.ca/focus/state-of-the-environment/air/monitoring-stations-ambient-air-quality-monitoring-in-alberta.aspx.

The linked map is created for a different purpose and may show more stations than are included in this data set, and may not show historical locations.

Calgary East was shut down in 2011 for relocation. Stations which have had PM2.5 monitoring technology upgraded since 2010 are: Medicine Hat and Fort Saskatchewan (2011), Fort McMurray AV (2012), Fort McMurray PM (2013). Stations which experienced reliability issues with the PM2.5 analyzer and failed to meet data completeness criteria are: Edmonton South and Lethbridge (2012), Medicine Hat (2013). The statistics for those stations are unavailable for those years.

In some instances, stations have alternative names. Grande Prairie is also referred to as Henry Pirker, and Medicine Hat as Crescent Heights.

Licence

Open Government Licence - Alberta

Contact

Contact Name

Office of Statistics and Information

Contact Email

osi.support@gov.ab.ca

Contact Other

(780) 427-2071

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Data obtained from CASA Data Warehouse.

Monitoring Stations Map: http://esrd.alberta.ca/focus/state-of-the-environment/air/monitoring-stations-ambient-air-quality-monitoring-in-alberta.aspx.

The linked map is created for a different purpose and may show more stations than are included in this data set, and may not show historical locations.

In some instances, stations have alternative names. Grande Prairie is also referred to as Henry Pirker, and Medicine Hat as Crescent Heights.

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Air Quality Index - Percentage of Good Hours, Alberta

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Alberta Official Statistic Visualization

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