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Description

Air quality monitoring data

Questions this resource can help answer

What are the concentrations of air pollutants in a given location at a given point in time?

How do I use this resource?

Characterize recent and historical ambient concentrations of criteria pollutants

Resource information

Resource owner

Government

Format

Website

Backup URL

Update Frequency

Real-time

Geographic Coverage

United States

Technical specifications

Methodology

Collected from US air quality monitoring network

Sectors

Other Specifications

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