Air Quality Monitoring Data

The City of Albuquerque Environmental Health Department Air Quality Division measures ambient air quality conditions for the following criteria pollutants: Carbon monoxide (CO); Nitrogen dioxide (NO2); Ozone (O3); Coarse Particulate Matter (PM10); and Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5) .

The data is submitted to the Environmental Protection Agency's AQS database. Upon receipt of the data the Environmental Protection Agency reviews and posts the data once approved. Once approved the data is available for public use.

Here you can access the Air Quality Data collected by the City of Albuquerque. The geographical coverage of the data is the entire County of Bernalillo.

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• Air Quality Trends - Each year EPA tracks the levels of these pollutants in the air and how much of each pollutant is emitted from various pollution sources. The Agency looks at these numbers year after year to see how the pollutants have changed over time.
• Air Emission Sources - EPA tracks the emissions from the sources of these pollutants, including how much of each pollutant is emitted from various pollution sources.
• Air Quality Where You Live - View information in Google Earth format about which facilities emit any of six common pollutants. You will need to download Google Earth first before you can view the facility-level information in the Google Earth format.
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Air Quality Monitoring Data

EPA Monitoring Data by Geographical Area - EPA maintains the Air Quality Monitoring data in an easily accessible database. This database can be used to compare several states at a time by pollutant or Air Quality Index. This site requires Flash™ player . You can copy and paste directly into MSExcel or download a comma or tab delimited table.

EPA's AQS Data Mart - requires registration

The AQS Data Mart is a database containing all of the information from the AQS system.  The AQS Data Mart was built as a storehouse of air quality information that allows users to make queries of unlimited quantities of data.  The main AQS system must maintain constant readiness to accept data, and thus is limited in the number and size of queries it can respond to.  The Data Mart has no such limitation, other than the “wall clock” time it takes for a query to run.  The Data Mart also includes information from the EPA’s substance and facility registry systems to allow for cross-media integration.  Starting in the summer of 2007, it will also contain information from AirNow (the real time air quality reporting system) that participating agencies allow to be shared with the public.

Detailed Air Quality Monitoring Data

EPA Raw Data Retrievals - This website provides data back to 1993 in large compressed (ZIP) files. Data are not seperated by state or county. To use the data the state code for New Mexico is "35" and the county code for Bernalillo is "001". These files contain all the monitoring data (hourly, daily, other) submitted to the EPA.

Summary Data Queries

EPA Annual Summary Data Queries - This website provides data in easily obtainable and easily understood format. To use the site use the following inputs:

• Select the desired year
• State: NM - New Mexico
• County Code: 001
• Select the desired parameter (Criteria Pollutant)
• Select the desired Query Columns

Data output can be in ASCII or on-screen.

Disclaimer

Monitoring information comes from EPA's Air Quality System (AQS) database. The data represent the best information available to EPA from state agencies. However, some values may be absent due to incomplete reporting, and some values subsequently may be changed due to quality assurance activities. The AQS database is updated daily by state and local organizations who own and submit the data. Please contact the pertinent state agency to report errors.

Readers and data users are cautioned not to infer a qualitative ranking order of geographic areas based on AirData maps, charts, or reports. Air pollution levels measured in the vicinity of a particular monitoring site may not be representative of the prevailing air quality of a county or urban area. Pollutants emitted from a particular source may have little impact on the immediate geographic area, and the amount of pollutants emitted does not indicate whether the source is complying with applicable regulations.