Topic: Air quality data

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GEOS-Chem is an open?source global 3?D chemical transport model used to simulate atmospheric composition, including gases and aerosols, and their chemistry, transport, and deposition. The website provides documentation, installation and run instructions, tutorials, model version information, input datasets, and links to the user community and developer resources. Researchers use it to run simulations for air quality, climate, and biogeochemical cycling studies, and to contribute improvements back to the shared codebase.

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EPA’s HAPEM (Hazardous Air Pollutant Exposure Model) is a human exposure model that estimates how people are exposed to outdoor-origin hazardous air pollutants as they move through different microenvironments (home, work, in transit, outdoors). Using ambient concentration inputs, population and activity-pattern data, and microenvironmental factors (e.g., infiltration indoors), HAPEM produces distributions of exposure for various population groups and is used in national? and regional?scale risk assessments such as the National Air Toxics Assessment.

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EPA’s Human Exposure Model (HEM) is a probabilistic exposure assessment tool used to estimate how people are exposed to contaminants (often air pollutants, but not limited to them) through different pathways and microenvironments. It is designed to support human health risk assessments by translating environmental concentrations into population exposure distributions for specific pollutants, locations, and demographic groups. HEM uses information on contaminant levels, population characteristics, and time–activity patterns to produce quantitative estimates of average and high-end exposures suitable for regulatory analyses and comparative policy evaluations.

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Main site for Google air quality products, including hyper local mapping, forecasts, history, and heatmaps. Requires an account and product purchase.

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Mapping tool providing information on overburdened communities in New Jersey, as well as information on environmental and public health stressors, and locations of emitting facilities, along with information about violations and incidents.

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Mapping tool providing locations of facilities with air permits in NJ, along with information on air quality, weather, wind speed and direction, and overburdened communities.

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Website providing case studies and resources related to screening assessments of community air quality concerns.

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Web tool providing information on neighborhood built environment, asthma, climate, housing, and outdoor air, intended to show how environments affect health.

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Repository for the Simple Interactive Models for better air quality set of tools. These tools demonstrate fundamental equations to calculate, visualize, and interpret air emissions and pollution. The tools are intended to make links between emissions, pollution dispersion, impacts, and potential solutions more accessible to a wider set of stakeholders. The tools include models as well as primers on different air quality topics.

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Website providing health and environmental data for municipalities in New Jersey

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