The Local Air Quality Index - Guernsey

The Local Air Quality Index is a method used by the government and companies to communicate air quality in an understandable way.

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How we calculate the air quality index - Guernsey

BreezoMeter uses an index called “DAQI (UK)”

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We take the average of each pollutant type according to local government definitions.

2

An official conversion table is used to convert average pollutant concentrations to AQI for each pollutant.

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The final AQI is determined by taking the worst AQI among all pollutants. The worst pollutant being the dominant pollutant.

Index Health Categories

DAQI (UK) represents air quality levels according to the following health categories:

Category

AQI

Low air pollution

1

Low air pollution

2

Low air pollution

3

Moderate air pollution

4

Moderate air pollution

5

Moderate air pollution

6

High air pollution

7

High air pollution

8

High air pollution

9

Very high air pollution

10

Pollutant Type

Period

pm2.5

24h avg.

pm10

24h avg.

o3

8h avg.

so2

0.25h avg.

no2

1h avg.

Index Pollutant Types

The following chart displays the pollutants that are part of the DAQI (UK) calculation and the timeframe taken to average each pollutant type :

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