UK Air Quality Measurements Bulk Data Download

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Score updated: 24/04/2016
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This is a bulk data download resource for air pollution measurements hosted by Defra's UK-AIR web pages - see also http://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/.

Monitoring networks and pollutants included are those covered by http://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/networks/ with the exception of diffusive sampler measurements which are not in scope at this stage. Measurements are available for the period 1973 to 2014 inclusive. Measured pollutant concentrations, aggregated statistics and station configuration information (location, analyser type, inlet height etc.) are provided in XML format based the European Air Quality e-Reporting schema (further information at http://www.eionet.europa.eu/aqportal/).

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Data Resources (4 in a time series)

2015

XML (TGZ FILE)
10/12/2015 Aggregated statistics (e.g annual means etc.)
Details Download xml (tgz file) (3.9 MB)
XML (TGZ FILE)
10/12/2015 Non-automatic sampler based measurements
Details Download xml (tgz file) (8.6 MB)
XML (TGZ FILE)
10/12/2015 Automatic (hourly) measurements
Details Download xml (tgz file) (1.0 GB)
XML (TGZ FILE)
10/12/2015 Measurement station configurations
Details Download xml (tgz file) (2.4 MB)

Additional Links (6)

HTML
UK-AIR: Air Information Resource
Details Link to html
HTML, CSV
UK-AIR Data Archive
Details Download html, csv (15.4 kB)
HTML, XML
Defra's Air Quality Spatial Object Register (Beta release)
Details Download html, xml (15.1 kB)
HTML, XML
UK-AIR Sensor Observation Service (Beta release)
Details Download html, xml (12.5 kB)
HTML, XML
UK-AIR Atom Download Services
Details Download html, xml (17.0 kB)
HTML
The EIONET Air Quality Portal
Details Link to html

Additional Information

Added to data.gov.uk 16/12/2015
Theme Environment
Mandate http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/1001/made
Temporal coverage 1973 - 2014
Geographic coverage United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland)
Schema/Vocabulary European Air Quality e-Reporting (by Eionet)
Service Level SLA Agreed
Update frequency annual
Themes (secondary) No value
Code list No value