B.C. Air Quality

Resources for Researchers and Scientists

See also Air Quality Reports and Publications.

QUICK JUMPS

Air Pollutant Emissions

Air Pollutant Emissions (Environment Canada)

Air Toxics Website (Technology Transfer Network, U.S. EPA)

B.C. Marine Emissions Inventory (Canadian Chamber of Shipping) 

Emission Factors (Technology Transfer Network, U.S. EPA)

Emission Inventories (Technology Transfer Network, U.S. EPA)

Emissions Measurement Centre (Technology Transfer Network, U.S. EPA)

Inventories and Emission Factors (Technology Transfer Network, U.S. EPA)

National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI) (Environment Canada)

Prevention and Control Technologies (Technology Transfer Network, U.S. EPA)

RACT/BACT/LAER Clearinghouse (Technology Transfer Network, U.S. EPA)

 

Air Pollution Modelling

Air Resources Laboratory Trajectory Models (U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (U.S. NOAA)

Atmospheric Transport and Dispersion (Air Resources Laboratory, U.S. NOAA)

Community Modelling and Analysis System (CMAS) (U.S. Center for Environmental Modeling for Policy Development)

Support Center for Regulatory Atmospheric Modeling (SCRAM) (Technology Transfer Network, U.S. EPA)

 

Air Quality Science

Air Quality Analysis (Technology Transfer Network, U.S. EPA)

Atmospheric Sciences (Harvard Engineering and Applied Sciences)

B.C. Relevant Air Quality Publications (Department of Geography, University of British Columbia (UBC)

Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) (World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments (IMPROVE)

Mercury Programme (United Nations Environment Program, (UNEP)

NARSTO (North American Research Strategy for Tropospheric Ozone)

Papers on Air Quality, Climate and Health (University of California, Berkeley)

Task Force on Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollution (Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution, U.S. EPA)

Technology Transfer Network (U.S. EPA)

 

Air Quality/Health Research

Air Quality Research and Development (Air Resources Laboratory, U.S. NOAA)

BC Lung Association

Fate, Exposure and Risk Analysis (FERA) (Technology Transfer Network, U.S. EPA)

National Collaborating Centre on Environmental Health

Primer for BC Physicians and Resource for Informing Patients on Outdoor Air Quality (BC Lung Association)

Provincial Health Officer's Annual Report, 2003: Every Breath You Take (PDF: 3.8 MB/155 pages)

UBC Centre for Health and Environment Research (University of British Columbia)

 

Research Funding and Scholarships

Air Quality and Health Research Funding (Includes Robert Caton Scholarship and David Bates/BC CLEAR Fund Scholarship)

BC Clean Air Research Fund (CLEAR) (Fraser Basin Council)

BC CLEAR Fund 2008/2009 Annual Report (PDF: 758 KB/12 pages)

BC CLEAR Fund 2009/2010 Annual Report (PDF: 575 KB/11 pages)

BC CLEAR Fund 2010/2011 Annual Report (PDF: 175 KB/25 pages)

 

Air Quality Data

Air Monitoring Data, Washington State

AIR Now (cross-agency U.S. Government)

Air Quality System (Technology Transfer Network, U.S. EPA)

Alberta Real Time Air Quality Data

Canadian Air and Precipitation Monitoring Network (CAPMoN) (Environment Canada)

National Air Pollution Surveillance (NAPS) Network (Environment Canada)

 

Air Quality Summaries

Air Trends (U.S. EPA)

Canada-wide Standards for Particulate Matter and Ozone: Five Year Report: 2000-2005 (Canadian Council of Ministers for the Environment (CCME) (PDF: 518 KB/17 pages)

National Air Pollution Surveillance (NAPS) Network Annual Reports (Environment Canada)

 

Air Quality Standards and Objectives

Air Quality (Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, Australian Government)

Alberta Ambient Air Quality Objectives (Alberta Environment)

Ambient Air Quality Guidelines (New Zealand Ministry for the Environment)

California Ambient Air Quality Standards (California Air Resources Board)

Canada-wide Standards for Particulate Matter and Ozone: Five Year Report: 2000-2005 (CCME) (PDF: 518 KB/17 pages)

Canada-wide Standards for PM and Ozone: Status of Jurisdictional Implementation Planning Activities — British Columbia (PDF: 251 KB/17 pages)

European Union Air Quality Standards (EUROPA, European Commission)

National Ambient Air Quality Objectives Science Assessment Documents (Health Canada)

National Ambient Air Quality Standards (Technology Transfer Network, U.S. EPA)

Ontario Air Quality Standards (Ontario Ministry of the Environment)

Particulate Matter & Ozone (Documents and Implementation Plans) (CCME)

United Kingdom (UK Air Quality Archive)

U.S. National Ambient Air Quality Standards (U.S. EPA)

World Health Organization (WHO) Air Quality Guidelines (WHO Public Health and Environment)  

 

Regulations and Agreements

Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA) Environmental Registry (Environment Canada)  

Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (United Nations Environment Programme Ozone Secretariat)

Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants

Transportation and Air Quality (U.S. EPA)

UNECE Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (United National Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)

Canada - United States Air Quality Agreement (Environment Canada)

U.S. - Canada Air Quality Agreement (U.S. EPA)

U.S. Clean Air Act (U.S. EPA)

 

Meteorology

Atmospheric Science at UNBC (University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC)

Atmospheric Science Programme (UBC Dept of Earth and Ocean Sciences)

Canadian Air and Precipitation Monitoring Network (CAPMoN) (Environment Canada)

MSC Weather Viewer (UNBC)

National Centers for Environmental Prediction (U.S. NOAA) 

Weather and Climate Data (University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences)

Weatheroffice (Environment Canada)

 

Other Air Quality and Health Links

Air (Environment Canada)

Air Quality Health Index BC

AIR Now (cross-agency U.S. Government)

Air Resources Laboratory (U.S. NOAA)

Air Share (U.S. EPA)

BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC)

BC Lung Association

California Air Resources Board (California Environmental Protection Agency)

Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment (CCME)

Center for Health and the Global Environment (Harvard Medical School)

Center for Lung Health (UBC)

Clean Air Toolkit (B.C. Government, Environment Canada and BC Transit)

Department of Ecology (State of Ecology)

Environment Canada

Environmental and Workplace Health (Health Canada)

Fuel Consumption Guide (Natural Resources Canada)

Georgia Basin / Puget Sound International Airshed Strategy (Environment Canada)

Health and Clean Air

Health Effects Institute

National Clean Diesel Campaign (U.S. EPA)

National Collaborating Center for Environmental Health (located at the BC Centre for Disease Control)

Pacific Northwest (U.S. EPA)

Public Health Association of British Columbia

Puget Sound Clean Air Agency

Technology Transfer Network (U.S. EPA)

Toronto Public Health

West Coast Collaborative (National Clean Diesel Campaign, U.S. EPA)