Regional Deterministic Air Quality Analysis

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identifier urn:wmo:md:ca-eccc-msc:1f11ed9f-b13d-497b-853a-997b991195a1
type dataset
created 2023-10-06T00:00:00Z
updated
title Regional Deterministic Air Quality Analysis
description Regional Deterministic Air Quality Analysis (RDAQA) is an objective analysis of surface pollutants that combines numerical forecasts from the Regional Air Quality Deterministic Prediction System (RAQDPS) with hourly observations from various monitoring networks in North America, including the Canadian measurement networks operated by the provinces, territories and certain cities, as well as the various American networks in the context of the AIRNow program administered by US/EPA (US Environmental Protection Agency). RDAQA analysis provides the best description of current air quality conditions, and is used to inform the public, meteorologists in the various Environment and Climate Change Canada forecasting offices, Health Canada and other users about the distribution of air pollutants near the ground, and the performance of forecasting models. Each hour, a preliminary product is available approximately one hour after the observation measurement time, while final and Firework products are available approximately two hours after the measurement time. The preliminary and final products contain analysis of the chemical constituents O3, SO2, NO, NO2, PM2.5 (fine particles with diameters of 2.5 micrometers or less) and PM10 (coarse particles with diameters of 10 micrometers or less), while the Firework product contains analysis of PM2.5 and PM10.
wmo:dataPolicy core
keywords
  • Regional
  • Particulate matter
  • Air
  • Air - Quality
  • International
  • Atmosphere
themes concepts: id: Analysis
id: Air quality
id: Atmospheric emissions
id: Ozone
id: Chemicals

scheme: https://canada.multites.net/cst/EAEAD1E6-7DD2-4997-BE7F-40BFB1CBE8A2/CST20230912.rdf
concepts: id: atmospheric-composition

scheme: https://codes.wmo.int/wis/topic-hierarchy/earth-system-discipline
contacts addresses: deliveryPoint: 77 Westmorland Street, suite 260
city: Fredericton
administrativeArea: New Brunswick
postalCode: E3B 6Z4
country: Canada

roles: host
organization: Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada; Meteorological Service of Canada
name: National Inquiry Response Team / Équipe nationale de réponse des demandes du public
position: National Inquiry Response Team
hoursOfService: 0700h - 1500h EST
contactInstructions: email
phones: value: +18199972800

emails: value: ECWeather-Meteo@ec.gc.ca

links: rel: canonical
type: text/html
href: https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change.html

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