GIS and Pollution Data: Designating Regional Airsheds for Air Quality Management in India

Full journal article published here
Designating Airsheds in India for Urban and Regional Air Quality Management
https://doi.org/10.3390/air2030015

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Datasets used for proposing India's 15 regional airsheds for air quality management are the following

PM2.5 Datasets
Raw data source: https://sites.wustl.edu/acag/datasets/surface-pm2-5

• Gridded 0.1 degree resolution source apportionment results from WUSTL's global model simulations
  File: india_data_pm25_wustl_source_cont_0p1deg.xlsx
  Aggregated Source definitions used in this presentation
  • 1. DUST = Anthropogenic dust = AFCID
  • 2. WINDUST = Wind erosion (dust storms) = WDUST
  • 3. WASTE = Waste burning = WST
  • 4. RESI = All commercial and residential cooking, lighting, and heating = RCOC + RCOO + RCORbiofuel + RCORcoal + RCORother
  • 5. TRANS = All transport (excluding aviation) = ROAD + NRTR + SHP
  • 6. POWER = Energy generation = ENEcoal + ENEother
  • 7. INDUS = All industries and product use = INDcoal + INDother + SLV
  • 8. BIOB = Biomass burning, including forest fires and agricultural waste burning = GFEDoburn + GFEDagburn
  • 9. AGR = Agricultural activities (excluding agricultural waste burning) = AGR
  • 10. OTHER = All others = OTHER
• Gridded 0.1 degree resolution, reanalysis data from WUSTL's global model simulations
  File: india_data_pm25_wustl_reanalysis_0p1deg.xlsx
  Time period: 1998 to 2022, annual averages
• Gridded 0.1 degree achive for monthly averages from WUSTL's global model simulations
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Population Datasets
Raw data source: https://landscan.ornl.gov

• Gridded 0.1 degree resolution population density data
  File: india_data_population_2021_0p1deg.xlsx

GIS databases used in this study

• ESRI shapefile of 0.1 x 0.1 degree mesh file for the Indian Subcontinent covering longitudes from 67E to 99E and latitudes from 7N to 39N
  File: india_gis_grids-0.1x0.1deg.rar
• ESRI shapefile of India administrative level 2 data - 28 states and 8 union territories (as of December 2023)
  File: india_gis_states28+8_2023.rar
• ESRI shapefile of India administrative level 3 data - 755 districts (as of December 2023): district23 and states23 codes are re-designed for emissions and pollution mapping and data tracking purposes
  File: India_gis_districts755_2023.rar (original source: https://projects.datameet.org/maps)
• ESRI shapefile of India's Agro-Climatic zones
  File: india_gis_agroclimatic_zones.rar (original source: https://karnataka.data.gov.in/resource/boundaries-agro-climatic-regions 
• ESRI shapefile of India's meteorological sub-divisions
  File: india_gis_meteo_subdivisions.rar (original source: https://mausam.imd.gov.in)