Air Quality Monitoring - 2014

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Annual hourly air quality and meteorological data by monitoring site for the 2014 calendar year. For more information on air quality, including live air data, please visit environment.des.qld.gov.au/air.

Data resolution: One-hour average values (one-hour sum for rainfall)
Data row timestamp: Start of averaging period
Missing data/not monitored: Blank cell
Calm conditions: No hourly average wind direction is reported when the hourly average wind speed is zero
Barometric pressure: Values are at monitoring station elevation, not corrected to mean sea level
Daily zero/span response check: Automated instrument zero/span response checks are conducted daily between midnight and 1am at Queensland Government sites (can differ at industry sites). Where this takes place an ambient hourly value cannot be reported.
Sampling height: Four metres above ground (unless otherwise indicated)

PLEASE NOTE:

  • The Townsville Coast Guard 2014 air quality monitoring site data was updated on 26/10/2015 due to the wind direction sensor being misaligned and the reported wind direction values have now been corrected.
  • The Auckland Point 2014 air quality monitoring site data was updated on 24/04/2018 to remove invalid wind data due to a sensor fault.

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Data last updated 24 April 2018
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