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.

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Identification info

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 Individual 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
Spatial representation type
Vector

Spatial resolution

Equivalent scale

Denominator
10000
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
  • Health

Extent

N
S
E
W




Extent

Temporal extent

Time period
1969-04-01 2010-12-31
Maintenance and update frequency
Annually
EEA topics

  • Air pollution

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Atmospheric conditions

  • Human health and safety

  • Environmental monitoring facilities

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

Resource constraints

Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

License CC-BY 4.0 ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).

Resource constraints

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
no limitations to public access
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
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.

Distribution Information

Distribution format

  • ascii (.csv, .txt, .sql)

OnLine resource

OnLine resource

Direct download

Data quality info

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Report

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

Resource lineage

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.

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Reference System Information

Reference System Information

Code
EPSG:4326

Metadata

Metadata identifier
b9f13118-4ef4-4ffd-9c95-4e902477edb2

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role

European Environment Agency

sdi@eea.europa.eu

Point of contact

Type of resource

Resource type
Dataset
Metadata linkage

https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/catalogue/srv/api/records/b9f13118-4ef4-4ffd-9c95-4e902477edb2

Date info (Creation)
2012-12-19T16:22:24Z
Date info (Revision)
2025-10-09T11:11:13.1093Z

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115/19139

Edition

1.0

 
 
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Spatial extent

Keywords

EEA topics

Air pollution
GEMET

air quality air quality monitoring aromatic compound arsenic atmospheric composition atmospheric pollution benzene cadmium carbon monoxide dust heavy metal lead mercury nickel nitrogen dioxide nitrogen oxides ozone smog smoke sulphur dioxide traffic transboundary pollution troposphere tropospheric ozone volatile organic compound
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Atmospheric conditions Environmental monitoring facilities Human health and safety


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