List of all the DEFRA air quality monitoring stations with complete coordinates

This is the list of all the air quality monitoring stations ever installed in the UK and operated by DEFRA networks (as per February 2016). As the network expands, metadata for new stations will be added.

Usage

stations

Format

A data frame with 6561 observations on the following 14 variables.

UK.AIR.ID

ID reference for monitoring stations

EU.Site.ID

EU.Site.ID

EMEP.Site.ID

EMEP.Site.ID

Site.Name

Site name

Environment.Type

a factor with levels Background Rural Background Suburban Background Urban Industrial Suburban Industrial Unknown Industrial Urban Traffic Urban Unknown Unknown

Zone

Zone

Start.Date

Start date

End.Date

End date

Latitude

Latitude (WGS 84)

Longitude

Longitude (WGS 84)

Northing

Northing coordinate (British National Grid)

Easting

Easting coordinate (British National Grid)

Altitude..m.

Altitude in metres above sea level

Networks

Monitoring Networks

AURN.Pollutants.Measured

Pollutant measured

Site.Description

Description of the site.

SiteID

Site ID, used to retrieve time series data.

Source

https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/

Examples

stations
#> # A tibble: 6,611 × 17
#>    UK.AIR.ID EU.Site.ID EMEP.Site.ID Site.Name            Environment.Type Zone 
#>    <chr>     <chr>      <chr>        <chr>                <chr>            <chr>
#>  1 UKA15910  NA         NA           SH15, SH20, SH25 Ve… NA               Sout…
#>  2 UKA15956  NA         NA           SH15, SH22, SH25 Ai… NA               Sout…
#>  3 UKA16663  NA         NA           SH15, SH22, SH25 Ai… NA               Sout…
#>  4 UKA16097  NA         NA           10 High Street Tonb… NA               Sout…
#>  5 UKA12536  NA         NA           ABBOTS LANGLEY 1     NA               Grea…
#>  6 UKA12949  NA         NA           ABERBARGOED 1        NA               Sout…
#>  7 UKA12399  NA         NA           ABERCARN 1           NA               Sout…
#>  8 UKA13340  NA         NA           ABERDARE 1N          NA               Sout…
#>  9 UKA13341  NA         NA           ABERDARE 2N          NA               Sout…
#> 10 UKA15369  NA         NA           ABERDARE 3N          NA               Sout…
#> # ℹ 6,601 more rows
#> # ℹ 11 more variables: Start.Date <dttm>, End.Date <dttm>, Latitude <dbl>,
#> #   Longitude <dbl>, Northing <dbl>, Easting <dbl>, Altitude..m. <dbl>,
#> #   Networks <chr>, AURN.Pollutants.Measured <chr>, Site.Description <chr>,
#> #   SiteID <chr>