Articles | Volume 13, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-4601-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-4601-2020
Research article
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26 Aug 2020
Research article |  | 26 Aug 2020

High-resolution mapping of urban air quality with heterogeneous observations: a new methodology and its application to Amsterdam

Bas Mijling

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Many cities are experimenting with networks of low-cost sensors, complementary to their reference stations. Often the observations are published as dots on a map, as spatial interpolation is far from trivial. A new methodology to assimilate observations of different accuracy in a generic urban-air-quality model is introduced. It can be used for mapping local air quality based on reference measurements only or as a framework to integrate low-cost measurements next to official measurements.
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