Contributing to the World Air Quality Index project

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The World Air Quality project might look like one of those big projects coming from big organizations... but it is actually just a small team of volunteers behind this project.

Our real motivation is to see the daily impact on the world citizens. One of the users told us one day that "worse than disinformation is the lack of information: I did not know that pollution was so bad ". That makes us proud to give this free information and promote pollution awareness 🙏.

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We need help to get this project continue growing. If you would like to contribute to the World Air Quality Index project, send us a message, and let's together promote air pollution awarness and drive our little planet towards a pollution free planet 🙏.

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Fundings

The World Air Quality project started in 2007 and, despite its expensive outreach, the project has never received any financial support from any of NGO nor from any government 🌸

The reason is no that we do not want to, but it just takes too much time to seek for funds. And this time we would use to seek funds, we need to spend it maintaining the website and platform instead. Maybe you can help us seek for funds?

For now, the project income comes online advertising. The income is just enough to cover for the cloud infrastructure costs. That means that, currently, all contributors must have a real job at the same time 🙏

How can I help?

The World Air Quality Index project might look big, but it is actually a small but motivated team behind it. There are still many things that the project team want to achieve:


Current contributions,
from 115 countries
  • Forecast: Improve exising forecast model or add new the forecast model to our forecast page.
  • Coverage: Increase world-wide air quality monitoring coverage, especially for Middle-East and Africa.
  • Documentation: Write explanatory articles about air pollution.
  • Translation: Provide translations for up to 100 languages.
  • Data Science: Provide free data over the whole historical records.
  • Consumer Product: Review air purfiers, air monitors, masks.
  • Engineering: Develop new applications and visualizations.
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If you do not have time to contribute, but still would like to help and support our project, what about getting one of our cool GAIA air quality monitoring station? ☀️💨👌


Examples for articles:

  • Ultra fine particles (PM1) - are they more dangerous than PM2.5 and is it worth measuring them.
  • CO2 - is it an outdoor air pollutant, a climate warmer or an indoor pollutant?
  • Indoor Air Quality - what are the pollutant to be aware of?
  • Health effect of sulfur dioxide for area close to volcanic mountains

Examples of data-science:

  • Open Data Platform for accessign real-time and historical Air Quality Data
  • World Ensemble forecast modeling
  • Statistical and deep learning based data facts
  • Researching new accurate sensors for gas pollutants

Examples of engineering:

  • New visualization solutions for the real-time observations and forecast
  • API for accessing the real-time observations and forecast
  • Time travel Machine - for seeing the air quality at any day back in time
  • Applications for i-phone, etc..

关于空气质量与空气污染指数

本网站采用的污染指数和颜色与EPA是完全相同的。 EPA的指数可以从 AirNow上查到

空气质量指数 空气质量指数级别(状况)及表示颜色 对健康影响情况 建议采取的措施
0 - 50 一级(优) 空气质量令人满意,基本无空气污染 各类人群可正常活动
51 -100 二级(良) 空气质量可接受,但某些污染物可能对极少数异常敏感人群健康有较弱影响 极少数异常敏感人群应减少户外活动
101-150 三级(轻度污染) 易感人群症状有轻度加剧,健康人群出现刺激症状 儿童、老年人及心脏病、呼吸系统疾病患者应减少长时间、高强度的户外锻炼
151-200 四级(中度污染) 进一步加剧易感人群症状,可能对健康人群心脏、呼吸系统有影响 儿童、老年人及心脏病、呼吸系统疾病患者避免长时间、高强度的户外锻炼,一般人群适量减少户外运动
201-300 五级(重度污染) 心脏病和肺病患者症状显著加剧,运动耐受力降低,健康人群普遍出现症状 儿童、老年人及心脏病、肺病患者应停留在室内,停止户外运动,一般人群减少户外运动
300+ 六级(严重污染) 健康人群运动耐受力降低,有明显强烈症状,提前出现某些疾病 儿童、老年人和病人应停留在室内,避免体力消耗,一般人群避免户外活动
(参考详见 http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/空气质量指数)

如果你想了解更多有关空气质量与污染,详见维基百科或者 AirNow

有关健康建议详见北京的Richard Saint Cyr MD医生的博客:www.myhealthbeijing.com


注意事项: 所有空气质量数据在发布时均未经验证,并且为了保证数据质量,这些数据可能随时被修改,恕不另行通知。 世界空气质量指数项目在编制此信息的内容时已经运用了所有合理的技能和谨慎,在任何情况下世界空气质量指数项目团队或其代理人将不会为由于提供此数据而直接或间接引起的伤害、合同损失、侵权及其他任何损失负责。



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