Air quality - weblinks
The following web sites provide additional information linked to the topics in the SATIS Revisited unit Air quality.
Health effects of pollutants
http://www.airqualitynow.eu/pollution_health_effects.php
About Air Quality Index (AQI)(booklet) to download (US)
http://www.airinfonow.org/pdf/aqi_cl.pdf
Air quality index and health effects
http://airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=static.aqi
http://www.deq.idaho.gov/air/prog_issues/pollutants/health.cfm
History of air pollution UK fact sheet
http://www.ace.mmu.ac.uk/Resources/Fact_Sheets/Key_Stage_4/Air_Pollution/02.html
Key air pollutants fact sheet
http://www.ace.mmu.ac.uk/Resources/Fact_Sheets/Key_Stage_4/Air_Pollution/04.html
Air pollution and health fact sheet
http://www.ace.mmu.ac.uk/Resources/Fact_Sheets/Key_Stage_4/Air_Pollution/18.html
Poster on effects of air pollution (USA)
http://www.epa.gov/airnow//health-prof/EPA_poster-final_lo-res.pdf
Data about pollutants and sources for Activity 1
http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/statistics/airqual/kf/aqkf22.htm
http://www.airqualitynow.eu/pollution_home.php
http://www.epa.gov/air/urbanair/6poll.html
Encyclopaedia of information at two levels (Bart Simpson and Mr Burns)
http://www.ace.mmu.ac.uk/eae/english.html
Emissions data and maps for 2005
http://www.naei.org.uk/
List of pollutants and information about them
http://www.airquality.co.uk/archive/what_causes.php?n_action=pollutants&item=3
Amounts of carbon monoxide in the atmosphere: images over the year
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16550
European Union cities air quality
http://www.airqualitynow.eu/index.php
Cities around the world air quality
http://www.portfolio.mvm.ed.ac.uk/studentwebs/session4/27/citydiff.htm
World’s top 10 most polluted places in 2007. See Blacksmith Institute data at: http://www.blacksmithinstitute.org/ten.php
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