Open Knowledge

Pollutant Emissions 45% open

Canada


What data is expected?

Aggregate data about the emission of air pollutants especially those potentially harmful to human health (although it is not a requirement to include information on greenhouse gas emissions). Aggregate means national-level or available for at least three major cities. In order to satisfy the minimum requirements for this category, data must be available for the following pollutants and meet the following minimum criteria:

  • Particulate matter (PM) Levels
  • Sulphur oxides (SOx)
  • Nitrogen oxides (NOx)
  • Volatile organic compounds (VOCs)
  • Carbon monoxide (CO)
  • Updated on at least once a week.
  • Measured either at a national level by regions or at leasts in 3 big cities.

What data is available

  •   Openly licensed? Unsure (No URL given)
  •   Is the data available for free? Yes
  •   Is the data machine readable? Unsure (n/a)
  •   Available in bulk? Unsure
  •   Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis? Yes
  •   Publicly available? Yes published by the data for air pollution monitor is available and in timely up but its not give be the canadian federal Government)
  •   Is data in digital form? Yes
  •   Is the data available online? Yes (Here)
  •   Does the data exist? Yes

Details

the data for air pollution monitor is available and in timely up but its not give be the canadian federal Government its given by Environmental Protection Agency of ecah provinces link to most of the air pollution monitor site of the provinces http://aqm.enr.gov.nt.ca/-Northwest Territories http://www.bcairquality.ca/-British Columbia http://www.gov.mb.ca/conservation/envprograms/airquality/-Saskatchewa http://www.mddelcc.gouv.qc.ca/air/iqa/index.htm-Newfoundland and Labrador www.gov.mb.ca/conservation/envprograms/airquality/- http://www.airqualityontario.com/-Ontario http://esrd.alberta.ca/air/-alberta

The reviewed data of prior years can be downloaded in bulk. Environment Canada's website's terms of use prohibit commercial reproduction. However, data.gc.ca publishes many of the same datasets under an open license. The terms conflict, the url to the open licence is provided.

The Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC) HTTP data server is a source of several raw meteorological data types and forecast data. This service is aimed at specialized users with good meteorological and IT knowledge, and is mainly meant to be accessed in an automatic manner via the internet (e.g. with scripts). The server's URL is: http://dd.meteo.gc.ca/. Also, in Canada provinces and territories also have monitoring sensors, data would need to be acquired from them as well.

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Contributors

Reviewers

  • yar michl

Submitters

  • Mor Rubinstein