India FoSS 2024:
Air pollution is a major problem in cities of the world with direct consequences to health and quality of life. However, the tools to study air pollution are complex, data-intensive and often proprietary. As a result, many secondary and tertiary cities are unable to conduct research on air pollution. UrbanEmissions.Info has been developing open-source versions of these tools and datasets to help city managers, regulators, academia and citizen groups in integrated air quality management of a city. UrbanEmissions.Info has so far published data repositories of Air Quality Forecasts, Satellite retrievals and calculators that help simulate various aspects of the air pollution. We call these family of tools as “Simple Interactive Models for better air quality” (SIM-air). UrbanEmissions.Info has been reaching out to citizen groups across the country to share this knowledge and tools on air pollution.
The SIM-air Model – a demo version of a reduced-complexity integrated air pollution analysis tool to go from estimating emissions to pollution to impacts for a set scenario and also perform optimization among options for reaching air quality targets — [Link] to download the files and 10 instructional videos on the tool.
More tools to learn emissions and pollution modeling.
India Foss 2025:
Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) of India maintains air quality monitoring stations in 283 Indian cities. CPCB releases daily AQI bulletins which report the daily average AQI for each city, number of working monitors on that day and the prominent pollutant driving AQI on that day. Urbanemissions.info did a research project on analyzing these daily Air Quality Bulletins: AQI Analysis for Indian Cities. In this process we scraped all the bulletins from 2015 to 2024. In this presentation, we introduced this dataset and research/applications we could do with this data.
AQI database and other resources on air quality analysis for Indian cities.