The Local Air Quality Index - Costa Rica
The Local Air Quality Index is a method used by the government and companies to communicate air quality in an understandable way.
How we calculate the air quality index - Costa Rica
BreezoMeter uses an index called “ICCA (CR)”
We take the average of each pollutant type according to local government definitions.
An official conversion table is used to convert average pollutant concentrations to AQI for each pollutant.
The final AQI is determined by taking the worst AQI among all pollutants. The worst pollutant being the dominant pollutant.
Index Health Categories
ICCA (CR) represents air quality levels according to the following health categories:
Category
AQI
Good air quality
0 to 20
Unfavorable air quality for sensitive groups
21 to 40
Unfavorable air quality
41 to 60
Very unfavorable air quality
61 to 80
Hazardous air quality
81 to 100
Pollutant Type
Period
pm2.5
24h avg.
pm10
24h avg.
o3
1h avg.
so2
24h avg.
no2
1h avg.
co
8h avg.
Index Pollutant Types
The chart displays the pollutants that are part of the The following chart displays the pollutants that are part of the ICCA (CR) calculation and the timeframe taken to average each pollutant type. :
Air Quality Indexes Around The Globe
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