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Website for the Oregon DEQ Community Air Action Planning program, which aims to begin improving local air quality in historically overburdened areas through a collaborative process of community-led action.
The Toolkit for Municipal Extreme Heat & Air Quality Response Planning in Connecticut is a set of resources designed for municipal public health departments that are committed to climate change preparedness and resilience, with a specific focus on extreme heat and poor air quality stemming from ozone and PM2.5 levels.
Drawing from nearly 20 extreme heat and/or air quality response plans across the U.S., the toolkit includes a template for local heat and air quality preparedness and response plans, highlights innovative strategies from municipalities in California, Maine, Connecticut, and Colorado, and provides shareable resources that can be adapted by local stakeholders.
Website providing information on evaluation of climate and health program actions, including methodologies and case studies.
NASA’s TEMPO (Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution) project page at the Atmospheric Science Data Center provides access to data and documentation for the TEMPO instrument, a UV–visible grating spectrometer in geostationary orbit that measures key air pollutants over North America. From its fixed position above 91°W, TEMPO scans the continent hourly during daylight, using reflected sunlight to retrieve ozone, nitrogen dioxide, formaldehyde, aerosols, and related atmospheric constituents that are critical for understanding air quality and its impacts. The site offers mission descriptions, data product access (Level 1–3), user guides, and algorithm documents to support research, forecasting, and applications in health and environmental management.
CalEnviroScreen, developed by California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), is a screening tool that scores and ranks census tracts across the state based on cumulative pollution burdens and population vulnerabilities. It combines data on pollution sources and exposures (air pollution, hazardous sites, traffic, drinking water, etc.) with sensitive population and socioeconomic indicators (e.g., asthma ER visits, cardiovascular disease, poverty, linguistic isolation) to identify communities that are disproportionately burdened by multiple environmental and social stressors.
The CACES data portal provides publicly available, high?resolution estimates of air pollution exposures and related metrics developed by the Center for Air, Climate, and Energy Solutions. It offers gridded and geographically linked datasets (e.g., by census tract, county, or other units) for pollutants like fine particulate matter (PM?.?), ozone, and nitrogen dioxide over multiple years, along with documentation and code. Researchers, agencies, and advocates can download these modeled exposure surfaces to analyze trends, assess health and equity impacts, and link air quality estimates to demographic, health, and policy data.
The DEQ North Carolina Community Mapping System is an online, interactive mapping platform that brings together environmental, health, demographic, and infrastructure data to help communities understand local conditions and support environmental justice and planning efforts. Through a web map interface, users can explore layers related to air and water quality, regulated facilities, climate and flooding risks, sensitive receptors (like schools), and community characteristics, allowing residents, advocates, and decision?makers to identify overburdened areas, visualize cumulative impacts, and inform permitting, enforcement, and investment decisions.
Part of NASA’s EARTHDATA portal, providing access to downloadable satellite observations from the Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) mission.
Giovanni is an online (Web) environment for the display and analysis of geophysical parameters in which the provenance (data lineage) can easily be accessed. It includes a number of different atmospheric measurements such as aerosols, aerosol optical depth, black carbon, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, and sulfur dioxide, as well as weather variables such as temperature, humidity, and wind.
