AirBase: Validated measurements of the concentration of air pollutants 1969-2010 - version 6, Feb. 2012

AirBase is the European air quality database maintained by the EEA through its European topic centre on Air pollution and Climate Change mitigation. It contains air quality monitoring data and information submitted by participating countries throughout Europe.

The air quality database consists of a multi-annual time series of air quality measurement data and statistics for a number of air pollutants. It also contains meta-information on those monitoring networks involved, their stations and their measurements.

The database covers geographically all EU Member States, the EEA member countries and some EEA collaborating countries. The EU Member States are bound under Decision 97/101/EC to engage in a reciprocal exchange of information (EoI) on ambient air quality. The EEA engages with its member and collaborating countries to collect the information foreseen by the EoI Decision because air pollution is a pan European issue and the EEA is the European body which produces assessments of air quality, covering the whole geographical area of Europe.

All pollutants might not be monitored at all stations.

Date (Creation): 2012-02-22

Date (Publication): 2012-02-22

Edition: 6

Citation identifier: eea_v_4326_10_k_airbase-validated-meas_p_1969-2010_v06_r00

Status: Obsolete

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Website	Role
European Environment Agency		sdi@eea.europa.eu	http://www.eea.europa.eu	Point of contact
European Environment Agency		sdi@eea.europa.eu		Custodian

Maintenance and update frequency: Annually

EEA topics

Air pollution

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Atmospheric conditions
Human health and safety
Environmental monitoring facilities

Keywords

GEMET

dust
lead
sulphur dioxide
heavy metal
carbon monoxide
aromatic compound
arsenic
nickel
mercury
cadmium
smoke
smog
tropospheric ozone
nitrogen oxides
atmospheric pollution
air quality monitoring
benzene
ozone
troposphere
volatile organic compound
transboundary pollution
nitrogen dioxide
atmospheric composition
air quality
traffic

Use limitation: EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged ( http://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: no limitations to public access

Spatial representation type: Vector

Denominator: 10000

Language of dataset: English

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Environment
Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
Health

Begin date: 1969-04-01

End date: 2010-12-31

Additional Information: AirBase is the air quality information system maintained by the EEA through the European topic centre on Air pollution and Climate Change mitigation. It contains air quality data delivered annually under 97/101/EC Council Decision establishing a reciprocal exchange of information and data from networks and individual stations measuring ambient air pollution within the Member States (EoI Decision). The EoI Decision distinguishes between information which must be transmitted in particular relating to the Directive on Air Quality (96/62/EC) and information that must be submitted where it is available. The four annexes in the EoI Decision (list of pollutants, statistical parameters and units of measurement; information concerning networks, stations and measurement techniques; data validation procedure and quality assurance; criteria for the aggregation of data and the calculation of statistical parameters) were amended by Commission Decision 2001/752/EC and its corrigendum. The EEA requests all its member and collaborating countries to provide the information foreseen by the EoI Decision because air pollution is a pan European issue and the EEA produces assessments of air quality, which cover the whole geographical area of Europe.

Coordinate reference system identifier: EPSG:4326

Distribution format

ascii (.csv, .txt, .sql) ( )

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
EEA:FOLDERPATH	https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_v_4326_10_k_airbase-validated-meas_p_1969-2010_v06_r00/
WWW:URL	https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/data/b9f13118-4ef4-4ffd-9c95-4e902477edb2	Direct download

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Statement: - Countries deliver to Reportnet/CDR.

- ETC runs standard checks and provides feedback in CDR.

- Countries possibly redeliver.

- ETC compiles a European dataset and delivers it to EEA.