Sentences with phrase «air quality over»

Aside from tracking air quality in the moment, the iBaby Air maps your home's air quality over time, letting you see improvements as you make them.
The Eve app is also used with the sensors» data to display graphs based on day, month, and year, highlighting changes in the home's air quality over time.
As reported in New Scientist, Beatriz da Costa of the University of California at Irvine, and two students, Cina Hazegh and Kevin Ponto, plan to launch a 20 pigeon brigade to monitor air quality over San Jose, California, this summer.
Changes projected in the SRES A2 and A1FI scenarios would degrade air quality over much of the globe by increasing background levels of O3.
NCAR researchers and their collaborators are also making strides into predicting the behavior of long - lived wildfires, better guiding aircraft from turbulence, and forecasting air quality over specific areas several days in advance.
Climate change also threatens our air, it is likely to trigger deterioration in air quality over time.
The trajectory of future emissions thus has the potential to greatly influence air quality over most of the world's highly populated areas.
Their research suggests that to improve the air quality over major cities in China, emission control planning should focus on the regional scale instead of the local scale.
«Key users of this data are environmental agencies [that] have to report on things like greenhouse gases,» says Claus Zehner, an ESA Earth observation application engineer, noting that the European Union (E.U.) continues to keep tabs on air quality over its member nations.
China's stated aim of improving air quality over the coming years would change this radiative forcing, leading to a rather counter-intuitive consequence; the increase in China's contribution to global warming.
«I was on a flight back from China, and the air quality over there had been just absolutely atrocious,» he says.

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An immense cloud of air pollution hanging over a city he loved, Johannesburg, inspired computer engineer Tapiwa Chiwewe to research air quality — something he had no experience in whatsoever.
Public anger over bad air and water quality in China has been rising in recent years, resulting in mass demonstrations.
Judge Andreas Korbmacher said on Thursday the country's highest federal administrative court would rule on Feb. 27 on an appeal brought by German states against bans imposed by local courts in Stuttgart and Duesseldorf over poor air quality.
California's government agency responsible for maintaining healthy air quality voted on Friday to adopt stricter emissions standards for automobiles, essentially daring President Donald Trump to confront the state in a legal battle over climate change.
Some cities with the most pervasive air quality problems are beginning to authoritatively exercise their control over access to the city.
In addition, more than 10,000 vintners and growers participated in over 240 educational workshops targeting specific practices such as energy efficiency, integrated pest management, and air and water quality.
It purifies the air with negative ions, tracks your air quality, temperature, and moisture levels and allows you to create charts and see changes over time.
While originally designed for jogging, this stroller is now the choice of a wider range of parents, who turn to this stroller for greater stability (three - wheel base) and smooth travel over rough terrain (large air - filled tires, lockable front swivel wheels and quality suspension systems)-- even if that rough terrain is just uneven pavement!
«Mayor Boris Johnson must improve air quality by prioritising funding for measures that will get Londoners driving less and walking, cycling and using public transport more - and scrap traffic generating schemes like new road crossings over the river Thames.»
Over the next several years, I want to work with you to bring renewable energies to our community, improve the quality of our air, our failing grade, and the overall health of our community.»
The DEC will conduct a study over the next year on the air quality in the Ezra Prentice neighborhood after South End homeowners voiced concerns.
The State Environmental Conservation Department is currently running air tests at the bridge to see how bad the air quality is when it arrives at the bridge and how bad it is after passing over the bridge and its trucks.
Connecticut's legal conflicts with the federal government over air quality issues escalated again last weekwhen the state joined New York in a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to enforce ozone pollution rules.
«Over the years, I have worked with Senator Espaillat to address problems in our communities including the need for more affordable housing, the air pollution that causes asthma and other health issues, and to improve the quality of our education programs,» Mr. Farrell told the Observer.
In visits to P.S. 19Q over the years, I observed first - hand broken heating and cooling systems, poor air quality and overcrowded conditions.
But thanks to prevailing winds that waft over the Pacific, the U.S. pays for its cheap - goods obsession via air quality on the West Coast.
BALTIMORE — A glut of nitrogen washing over the land from car and factory exhaust and crop fertilizers is degrading water and air quality and even altering precarious balances in species diversity.
ven so, during 2010 - 2014 people in parts of California, Arizona, Colorado, Texas, the Midwest and the Middle Atlantic still experienced more than 15 days a year in which ozone levels exceeded the U.S. health - based air quality standard of 70 parts per billion (ppb) averaged over eight hours.
Average number of days per year (2010 - 2014 average) when ozone levels exceed the US health - based air quality standard of 70 parts per billion (ppb) averaged over eight hours, at non-urban and urban sites.
«We have found that the measures to reduce methane and other ozone precursors would significantly improve the ozone air quality, especially over northern continents.
Over the course of three months, the monitors transmitted air quality data from the homes back to the researchers.
The environment in the UK has been improving over the last 10 or 15 years — I'm thinking about air and water quality and looking after our land.
Henry Hogo, assistant deputy executive officer of the South Coast Air Quality Management District, said his agency offers guidelines for choosing school sites, but there are no regulations since it has no authority over land use planning.
In 2005 in Ahmedabad officials fretted over India's seventh - largest city's air quality as nearly 300 new vehicles joined its roads daily, including rickshaws.
Over a three - month period, Ram and her team collected air quality data from environmental sensors in the vicinity of the Dallas hospital.
However, rather paradoxically, the latter country's «responsibility» may increase rapidly over the coming years, due to future policies designed to improve the country's air quality.
«Speed reductions, which are known to reduce emissions, would need to be maintained over a very long - term period in order to produce regional air quality benefits,» said James Corbett, a professor of marine policy at the University of Delaware, who has studied the impact of the shipping industry on human health.
Scientists at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) have used UAH's Rocket - city Ozone (O3) Quality Evaluation in the Troposphere (RO3QET) Lidar to measure ozone that was chemically produced by summertime lightning over the United States, research that could be important to air quality prediction and assessment once it is developed fQuality Evaluation in the Troposphere (RO3QET) Lidar to measure ozone that was chemically produced by summertime lightning over the United States, research that could be important to air quality prediction and assessment once it is developed fquality prediction and assessment once it is developed further.
The UI researchers analyzed air quality and pollution data compiled by state and county agencies over nearly three years at five sites spread statewide — urban areas Cedar Rapids, Davenport and Des Moines and rural locations in Montgomery county in southwest Iowa and Van Buren county in the southeast.
Air quality in Chinese cities is of increasing concern to China's stability - obsessed leadership because it plays into popular resentment over political privilege and rising inequality in the world's second - largest economy.
The blackout of 2003 upset a lot of routines, but Lackson Marufu of the University of Maryland was thrilled to divert his scheduled air - quality monitoring flight over eastern Maryland.
«More natural dust in the air improves air quality in eastern China: Reduced dust slows winds, increases air stagnation over cities like Beijing; implications for US, other cities as well.»
It's nothing a person would notice — a reduction barely more than one - tenth of one mile per hour — but on a large scale over an entire region, such a seemingly minor change has a profound effect on climate and air quality.
«While a few studies have analyzed the associations of both air quality and health over a long period, they were typically limited to analyses of a specific air pollutant or a couple of pollutants,» Lyerly said.
The North Bay Fires affected air quality in the Central Valley and satellite images show it traveled more than 500 miles over the Pacific, reaching as far south as Mexico.19 In 2015, smoke from wildfires in central Canada resulted in multiple days of exceedances of EPA standards in Maryland.20 In 2002, wildfire smoke from fires in Quebec impacted populations all along the East Coast of the United States, and a nearly 50 percent increase in hospital admissions for respiratory diagnoses for the elderly was associated with the smoke plume and concurrent PM2.5 in counties in states between New York and Washington, DC.21
As of July 25, the air across Southern California exceeded federal smog standards 81 times, an uptick over the two years prior according to the South Coast Air Quality Management Distriair across Southern California exceeded federal smog standards 81 times, an uptick over the two years prior according to the South Coast Air Quality Management DistriAir Quality Management District.
We could have a long (and probably pointless) debate over just how that's measured, but one of their claims is that «our general air quality has increased», as «evidence» of which they present their Figure 3 - 3, showing a (slight!)
One advantage this filter has over the Austin Air is a built - in sensor that tests the quality of the air and adjusts the filter to the correct level of filtratiAir is a built - in sensor that tests the quality of the air and adjusts the filter to the correct level of filtratiair and adjusts the filter to the correct level of filtration.
A study published in 2014 conducted in China, where air pollution and air quality has been suffering due to hazardous manufacturing and waste practices, showed dramatic changes in participants that consumed sulforaphane over a 12 week period.
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