What data is expected?
Aggregate data about the emission of air pollutants especially those potentially harmful to human health (although it is not a requirement to include information on green house gas emissions). Aggregate means national-level or more detailed and on an annual basis or better. Standard examples of relevant pollutants would be: carbon monoxides, nitrogen oxides, particulate matter etc.
What data is available
- Does the data exist? Yes
- Is data in digital form? Yes
- Publicly available? Yes
- Is the data available for free? Yes
- Is the data available online? Yes (Here)
- Is the data machine readable? No (HTML,PDF,JPEG)
- Available in bulk? No
- Openly licensed? No (No URL given)
- Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis? No
Details
Air quality data is gathered by regional councils and aggregated by Ministry for the Environment. Some councils, such as ECAN, make realtime air quality data available (see http://data.ecan.govt.nz/Catalogue/Search?Query=&CollectionId=4 ). At Ministry for the Environment I could only find prepared charts and commentary, not raw data (see http://www.mfe.govt.nz/environmental-reporting/air/air-quality-indicator/index.html ). No air data sets were visible at https://data.govt.nz/catalog/?AgencySearch=Ministry+for+the+Environment+%28MfE%29&action_doCustomSearch=Go&agency=true&rpp=25
Contributors
Reviewers
- Alex Sadleir
- Jonathan Hunt
Submitters
- Mark Heseltine
- Jonathan Hunt