Worldwide Air Pollution Mapped

The Plume Report has released what they are calling 'the get-go worldwide air map'. This volition apparently come upward equally a fleck of a surprise to the World Air Quality Index, whose ain real-time air pollution map has been to a greater extent than or less for a few years now.

The Plume Report Map is too a alive real-time map of air pollution to a greater extent than or less the world. The claim that this is the get-go worldwide map rests on Plume's mightiness to map predicted air pollution fifty-fifty inwards countries which don't operate air character monitoring networks The Plume Report nation that they role 'artificial news together with motorcar learning' to predict air character inwards areas without air character monitors. Unfortunately the Plume Report don't appear to convey published much data most how they laissez passer this except to nation that their 'models ... anticipate long-distance carry of air pollutants'.

The map itself uses colored hexagon markers to demo the electrical flow air pollution inwards cities to a greater extent than or less the world. The map too includes an overlay showing worldwide background pollution. You tin give the axe click on the hexagon map makers to read to a greater extent than details most the electrical flow air character inwards the selected city.


The World Air Quality Index is a real-time map of air pollution readings of actual air monitoring stations to a greater extent than or less the world. The markers representing these monitoring stations are color coded on the map to reverberate the condition of the latest readings. If yous mouse-over a maker yous tin give the axe too persuasion the fourth dimension of the displayed air character reading.