Britain Breathing 2016-2019 Air Quality and Meteorological Dataset

This data set is a collection of daily mean and maximum values for a range of air quality and meterological measurements and model forecasts for the UK for the years 2016-2019, inclusive. The dataset contains Temperature, Relative Humidity, and Pressure data, downloaded from the Met Office archives via the MEDMI server (https://www.data-mashup.org.uk/). Also downloaded from the MEDMI server are daily pollen measurements for the UK. PM10, PM2.5, NO2, NOx (as NO2), O3, and SO2 measurements from the DEFRA AURN network, and also model forecasts of the same made using the EMEP model.

The tools used to download and process these measurement datasets are available in this repository: https://github.com/UoMResearchIT/UoM_AQ_Data_Tools

The dataset is designed for use with the region estimator toolset, available in this repository: https://github.com/UoMResearchIT/region_estimators

Emissions over the UK for the EMEP model runs were generated using the NAEI 2016 UK emission dataset, available in netcdf form here: https://zenodo.org/record/3997165#.X9KUBF6nzUI. The running scripts, and operation inputs for EMEP, are available here: https://zenodo.org/record/3997301#.X9KUAF6nzUI and https://zenodo.org/record/3997271#.X9KV1F6nzUI.

The dataset is presented in CSV format.

The columns intended to be used as indexes are:

• time_stamp,
  • date of measurements on that row
• site_id,
  • measurement site ID, corresponding to sites in the three networks:
    • AURN [indicated by AQ],
    • Met Office [indicated by WEATHER],
    • or pollen [indicated by POLLEN].

The data columns are:

• O3, PM10, PM2.5, NO2, NOXasNO2, SO2, 
  • daily mean and maximum values in ug/m3 (all with "_max", "_mean", and "_flag" tags)
  • AURN measurement data
• O3_EMEP, NO2_EMEP, SO2_EMEP, NOXasNO2_EMEP, PM2.5_EMEP, PM10_EMEP,
  • daily mean and maximum values in ug/m3 (all with "_max", and "_mean" tags)
  • EMEP model forecasts
• alnus, ambrosia, artemisia, betula, corylus, fraxinus, platanus, poaceae, quercus, salix, ulmus, urtica,
  • daily pollen grain counts
• temperature, relativehumidity, pressure,
  • daily mean and maximum values in degC, %, and hPa (all with "_max", "_mean", and "_flag" tags).
  • Met Office measurement data

The "_flag" columns are intended to indicate data points which have been imputed. In this version of the dataset none have been, so these all will be zero.