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Type: Package
Title: Calculate the AQI from Pollutant Concentration
Version: 0.1.0
Author: Zhicheng Du, Ziqiang Lin, Yuantao Hao
Maintainer: Zhicheng Du <dgdzc@hotmail.com>
Description: To calculate the AQI (Air Quality Index) from pollutant concentration data. O3, PM2.5, PM10, CO, SO2, and NO2 are available currently. The method can be referenced at Environmental Protection Agency, United States as follows: EPA (2016) https://www3.epa.gov/airnow/aqi-technical-assistance-document-may2016.pdf.
License: GPL-3
Encoding: UTF-8
LazyData: true
Imports: utils
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2018-08-19 00:13:30 UTC; dgdzc
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2018-08-20 10:50:03 UTC

Calculate the AQI from Pollutant Concentration

Description

To calculate the AQI (Air Quality Index) from pollutant concentration data. O3, PM2.5, PM10, CO, SO2, and NO2 are available currently. The method can be referenced at Environmental Protection Agency, United States as follows: EPA (2016) <https://www3.epa.gov/airnow/aqi-technical-assistance-document-may2016.pdf>.

Usage

con2aqi(pollutant,con,type)

Arguments

pollutant

chatacter, one of the following pollutants: "o3", "pm25", "pm10", "co", "so2", and "no2"

con

numeric or numeric vector, concentration of the pollutant, the units of the pollutants are as follows: ppm, microgram per cubic metres, microgram per cubic metres, ppm, ppb, ppb

type

character, only for "O3", one of the following types: "8h" and "1h"

Value

aqi

air quality index

Note

Please feel free to contact us, if you have any advice and find any bug!

Reference:

Air Quality Assessment Division, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, Environmental Protection Agency, United States. Publication No. EPA-454/B-16-002. https://www3.epa.gov/airnow/aqi-technical-assistance-document-may2016.pdf

Updates:

Updates is coming.

Author(s)

Zhicheng Du<dgdzc@hotmail.com>, Ziqiang Lin<zlin@albany.edu>, Yuantao Hao<haoyt@mail.sysu.edu.cn>

Examples

con2aqi(pollutant="o3",con=0.078,type="8h")#126
con2aqi(pollutant="o3",con=0.162,type="1h")#148
con2aqi(pollutant="pm25",con=35.9)#102
con2aqi(pollutant="co",con=8.4)#90

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