EEA geospatial data catalogue
Air Quality download service for verified and Up To Date data, 2013-now
This is the metadata that refer to the services available to download 'air quality verified and Up To Date data'.
There are two types of services provided:
1) The "Air Quality Download Service" provides access to air quality measurements time series. Data can be filtered by countries, cities, pollutant on verified data (E1a - reported by countries by 30 September each year for the previous year) or unverified data (E2a - Up To Date/UTD reported by countries in real time).
2) The "Parquet downloads web api" where the desired requests can be made and downloaded.
The selected time series will be downloaded as zipped Parquet files. More information on how to view and convert the content of the Parquet files can be accessed below in 'Visualisation of Parquet files' and 'Convert Parquet to CSV'. The Parquet is an open source binary file format built to handle flat columnar storage of large volumes of data.
Simple
Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2023-08-21
- Date (Publication)
- 2023-08-22
- Edition
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01.00
- Citation identifier
- eea_t_air-quality-tabular-data_p_2013-now_v01_r00
- Point of contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
Point of contact
- Topic category
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- Environment
Extent
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2013-01-01
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Annually
Resource constraints
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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License CC-BY 4.0 ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).
- Language
- English
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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Parquet
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- OnLine resource
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Air Quality Download Service API
This is the API that users can request to download the desired Air Quality data
- OnLine resource
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Air Quality Download Service
This is the web page from which the user can download the data related to air quality
- OnLine resource
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Documentation on how to use the Air Quality download page
Resource lineage
- Statement
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To create the datasets that are downloaded from the services, the following steps are followed:
1) The files (XML) sent by each member country are obtained and the necessary information is extracted from them.
2) From this data, time series are generated with the necessary information and stored in parquet files within Azure platform.
3) The metadata is reflected in a PostgreSQL database within Azure platform.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- fe809728-9cec-41c0-a9be-3a8f04600974
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource type
- Non geographic dataset
- Name
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Tabular dataset
- Date info (Creation)
- 2023-08-08T08:29:43.639Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2026-09-25T05:36:13.13202Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115/19139
- Edition
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1.0
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