Air Analysis and Modelling
What we do – Air Anaylsis and Modelling
How do you turn data into decisions?
Our ability to create data far outstrips our ability to turn it into information, let alone intelligence. Can we then turn intelligence into wisdom?
At the Air Quality Collective we have decades of experience as research scientists attempting to do just this.
We specialize in:
- Scientific model development
- Analysis of large air monitoring datasets
The Air Quality Collective
Current and recent projects
AirGrid: Sensor grids to map airborne particulate matter across towns and cities
To create a map of air quality across a town or city you used to have spend significant resources setting up and maintaining a sparse air quality monitoring network and then apply uncertain models which rely on emissions data you don’t usually have. But gone are the...
Mapping traffic pollution: Using cheap samplers and semi-empirical modelling to gain insight into how urban planning and design impacts exposure
The degree to which road traffic pollutes urban air varies hugely, depending how much traffic is nearby. We’ve been mapping traffic pollution in detail across all New Zealand’s towns and cities over the last decade. In doing so we’ve been refining the methods to...
Recent blog posts
Latest news and blogs
What we’ve learned about NO2 (part one)
As far as I can tell the last breach of the AQNES for nitrogen dioxide happened in 2022 at Auckland coming after at least a decade of falling concentrations. It looked like maybe NO2 was yesterday’s pollutant. Then late in 2021 the World Health Organisation slashed...
AirGrid: Sensor grids to map airborne particulate matter across towns and cities
To create a map of air quality across a town or city you used to have spend significant resources setting up and maintaining a sparse air quality monitoring network and then apply uncertain models which rely on emissions data you don’t usually have. But gone are the...
What is air pollution?
So what is air pollution? Pollution is bad. The word ‘pollution’ conjures up images of something dark, something menacing, something nasty that turns up where it shouldn’t. The notion of something clean and pure being invaded by something repulsive or distasteful that...