A citizen centred urban network for weather and air quality in Australian schools.

ABSTRACT: High-quality, standardized urban canopy layer observations are a worldwide necessity for urban climate and air quality research and monitoring. The Schools Weather and Air Quality (SWAQ) network was developed and distributed across the Greater Sydney region with a view to establish a citizen-centred network for investigation of the intra-urban heterogeneity and inter-parameter dependency of all major urban climate and air quality metrics. The network comprises a matrix of eleven automatic weather stations, nested with a web of six automatic air quality stations, stretched across 2779 km², with average spacing of 10.2 km. Six meteorological parameters and six air pollutants are recorded. The network has a focus on Sydney's western suburbs of rapid urbanization, but also extends t

SUBMITTER: Ulpiani G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8967924 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature