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 published by Environment Protection Bureau)
- Is the data available for free? Yes
- Is the data available online? Yes (Here)
- Is the data machine readable? Yes (CSV)
- Available in bulk? Yes
- Openly licensed? No (No URL given)
- Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis? Yes
Details
Web interface allows you to pre-filter the exported CSV on particles / data and geographies.
Air quality Index data (which is based upon the raw data from air quality monitoring network) is available at: http://www.aqhi.gov.hk/epd/ddata/html/out/24aqhi_Eng.xml
Contributors
Reviewers
- FENG GAO
- Christian Villum
Submitters
- Christian Villum
- Mart van de Ven
- Haruka Nakamura