Welcome to the web site devoted to airborne particulate matter (PM)

The site has links to the sources of information on particulate pollution and more generally air pollution. A directory of environmental sites on web is also included.

     General Information on Particulates

• British Columbia Ministry of Environment
Fine Particulates, What They Are and How They Affect Us

Health Effects of Inhalabale Particles
 

• Particulates

Environmental Database for use in Schools Project, Southampton University,UK
 
•  Particulates (PM10)

Rocky Mountain Centre for Occupational & Environmental Health page on PM10
 
•  Breathing Easier (PM10)

EPA Region 9 page on PM10

• PM10 - Britain's biggest environmental problem?

By Marcus Jones, Birmingham

• Department of the Environment, UK Press Release on

Airborne Particulate Matter in the United Kingdom

• Smoke (PM10) sources - Sources of Fine Particulate Matter in Interior Communities.

• Burning Issues/Clean Air Revival -

devoted to improving the ambient air quality by reducing the particulate pollution which kills 60,000 individuals in the US annually.

    Health Effects of Particulates

• A brief note on air pollution and asthma

prepared by Atmospheric Research and Information Centre, Manchester.

• An American particulate pollution and health FAQ

• Breath-Taking

summary and data from a May 1996 NRDC report about premature mortality due to particulate air pollution in 239 American cities.

    Ambient Air Quality Monitoring- Programmes and Results

• PM10 and other air pollutants monitoring in the United Kingdom

 

UK Automatic Particulate Monitoring Network
funded by the UK Department of Environment.
and run by the National Environmental Technology Centre (NETCEN).

Latest PM10 measurements

Latest Measurements of Other Pollutants
• PM10 data 1993

PM10 Mean and Maximum Hourly Concentration, for UK Network

• EPA AIRS PM10 Data Sets

EPA AIRS PM10 Data Sets. This archive contains illustrative PM10 data files extracted from the EPA-AIRS data archive using the AIRS/Voyager Data Delivery System.

• Capita Reports on PM10 Concentrations

• California Regional PM10 Air Quality Study BBS

The California Regional PM10 Air Quality Study BBS is reachable by modem at (916) 443-9187.

• South Coast Air Quality Management District - 1994 Monitoring Results

PM10
TSP

• The PM10 Program: - Ambient Particulate Sampling in California.

• State and Local Air Monitoring Systems (SLAMS) in Utah

• Armidale Air Quality Reports (Australia)

• Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Report 1994 - Particulates PM10

Metropolitan Adelaide, Australia

• Total suspended particulates - measuring sites in Zagreb

Total suspended particulatesTSP - measuring sites in Zagreb.

• Validation of PM10 aerosol concentrations.

Dutch Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Network (LML)

    Monitoring Equipment

• Wedding & Assoc., PM10 and TSP Intermediate Flow Samplers

System flexibility of analytical techniques for particulate sampling. Available for PM10 or TSP.

• Molspin PM10 Monitor

• BIRAL Instruments for environmental monitoring, filter testing etc.

• Airmetrics instruments

• INSITEC

• FibreCheck

Monitor for asbestos and other particulates monitoring.

• TSI Particle Instruments

    Organisations and Associations

• American Association for Aerosol Research

Professional society for engineers and scientists involved in basic and applied aerosol research.

• AWMA, the Air & Waste Management Association

• US Environmental Protection Agency WWW Server

• European Environment Agency

• RIVM, the Netherlands

• NILU, Norwegian Air Research Institute

• Natural Environment Research Council, UK

• The Meteorology Office, UK

• The Environment Agency, UK

• United Nations Environment Programme, Geneva Executive Center

• Australian Environment Online

     Conferences and Events

• Conference List maintained by BIRAL

• Events List by AAAR, USA

    Other pages on air pollution and environment

List of Environmental Sites on the Internet

WWW Virtual Library -- Environment

Air Quality Management Resources Page

Air Pollution Group, University of Nottingham

University of Nottingham project on

Pathways of Particulate Pollution from Road Vehicles in Urban Area.
 
Atmospheric Aerosol Research -
aerosols and heterogeneous chemistry in the atmosphere; research program at the
Research Centre Karlsruhe and related activities around the world.
 
Air Pollution Group at Newcastle University

Andy Deacon's Air Quality Page

Ben Croxford's Page on Urban Pollution

Atmospheric Modelling at Cambridge

British Atmospheric Data Centre

UNEP- CEDAR: GRID and other databases
 
 

     Air Pollution Tutorial

prepared by the Wilson Group, University of California, San Diego

Physical Chemistry and the Environment
Effects of Air Pollution
Sources of Air Pollution
Time Evolution of Air Pollution
Photochemical Air Pollution
Inversion and Thermodynamics
Catalytic Converters
The Ozone Layer
Halogens and Ozone Depletion