Caseiro, Alexandre; von Schneidemesser, Erika (2021): Exposure to air pollution in Germany for the decade 2010-2019 (APExpose_DE) [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.932256
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Published: 2021-06-07 • DOI registered: 2021-07-06
Abstract:
In this dataset we present metrics related to the exposure to air pollution in Germany for the decade 2010-2019. The sources used for the production of the dataset were Airbase, from the European Environmental Agency (https://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/air/explore-air-pollution-data) and the CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) global reanalysis EAC4 (https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/dataset/cams-global-reanalysis). Stations of the types "Traffic" and "Industrial" were left out for being considered unrepresentative to long-term exposure, those of the type "Background" were included. Each station was geo-located within, and each computed yearly value associated to, a NUTS-3 unit. Within each NUTS-3 (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics) unit and for each metric, the yearly values per station were averaged in three ways, giving preference to different station sitings, each representing a different scenario: average, urban, remote.
The monitoring data were produced for the NUTS-3 units and the years where monitoring data for a given pollutant is available. In order to complete the dataset for the NUTS-3 units where no monitoring data for a given pollutant is available, the Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service (CAMS) EAC4 reanalysis (https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/dataset/cams-global-reanalysis) was used. The yearly-averaged rasters from CAMS were vectorized and scaled to available monitoring data to obtain values for each NUTS-3 units.
As a final step, the Airbase and CAMS derived data were combined to produce the APExpose_DE dataset.
Each record (each line in the file) corresponds to a NUTS-3 unit (identified by its name and its code), and a scenario, for a given year.
There are 402 NUTS-3 units in Germany and 3 scenarios were developed, the total number of records in the dataset is 1206 per year, or 12060 for the entire study period. Each record includes a numeric value for each metric considered. The ASCII format of the provided dataset enables a simple access and workup. The NUTS-3 code, provided for each record, enables linking the dataset to other, possibly vectorized, datasets at the NUTS-3 or coarser level.
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 50.621608 * Median Longitude: 9.862922 * South-bound Latitude: 47.556349 * West-bound Longitude: 6.164113 * North-bound Latitude: 54.784993 * East-bound Longitude: 14.750797
Date/Time Start: 2010-01-01T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2019-12-31T00:00:00
Event(s):
Comment:
The APExpose_DE dataset is a long-term (2010-2019) dataset providing ambient air pollution metrics at yearly time resolution for NO2, NO, O3, PM10 and PM2.5 at the NUTS-3 spatial resolution level (corresponding to the Landkreis/Kreisfreie Stadt in Germany).
Parameter(s):
| # | Name | Short Name | Unit | Principal Investigator | Method/Device | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Event label | Event | Caseiro, Alexandre | |||
| 2 | Location | Location | Caseiro, Alexandre | |||
| 3 | DATE/TIME | Date/Time | Caseiro, Alexandre | Geocode – start | ||
| 4 | DATE/TIME | Date/Time | Caseiro, Alexandre | Geocode – end | ||
| 5 | Nitrogen dioxide | NO2 | µg/m3 | Caseiro, Alexandre | annual mean | |
| 6 | Duration | Duration | h | Caseiro, Alexandre | number of hours of the year which have a NO2 concentration over 200 µg/m³ | |
| 7 | Nitric oxide | NO | µg/m3 | Caseiro, Alexandre | ||
| 8 | Ozone | O3 | µg/m3 | Caseiro, Alexandre | annual mean | |
| 9 | Duration, number of days | Duration | days | Caseiro, Alexandre | number of days of the year which have a daily average O3 concentration over 120 µg/m³ | |
| 10 | Ozone, daily maximum | O3 day max | µg/m3 | Caseiro, Alexandre | annual mean | |
| 11 | Ozone, daily maximum | O3 day max | µg/m3 | Caseiro, Alexandre | maximum daily 1-h average O3 concentration over the entire year | |
| 12 | Ozone, daily maximum | O3 day max | µg/m3 | Caseiro, Alexandre | maximum daily 8-h average O3 concentration over the entire year | |
| 13 | Particulate matter, < 10 µm | PM10 | µg/m3 | Caseiro, Alexandre | annual mean | |
| 14 | Duration, number of days | Duration | days | Caseiro, Alexandre | number of days of the year which have a daily average PM10 concentration over 50 µg/m³ | |
| 15 | Particulate matter, < 2.5 µm | PM2.5 | µg/m3 | Caseiro, Alexandre | annual mean | |
| 16 | Identification | ID | Caseiro, Alexandre | location ("Kreis")-code | ||
| 17 | Scenario | Scenario | Caseiro, Alexandre | |||
| 18 | Identification | ID | Caseiro, Alexandre | ISO_code | ||
| 19 | Identification | ID | Caseiro, Alexandre | location ("Kreis")-key | ||
| 20 | LONGITUDE | Longitude | Caseiro, Alexandre | Geocode | ||
| 21 | LATITUDE | Latitude | Caseiro, Alexandre | Geocode |
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)
Status:
Curation Level: Enhanced curation (CurationLevelC)
Size:
192960 data points
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