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Monitoring Site Environment Type

1 - RURAL
Description An open countryside location, in an area of low population density distanced as far as possible from roads, populated and industrial areas.
Source Influences Regional long-range transport, urban plume.
Objectives Ecosystem impact studies.Assessing compliance with critical loads and levels for crops and vegetation.Investigating regional and long-range transport.Identification of ozone "hot spots"
2 - URBAN
Description URBAN
Source Influences Vehicle, commercial, space heating.
Objectives Identification of long-term urban trends.
3 - KERBSIDE
Description A site sampling within 1m of the kerb of a busy road.
Source Influences Local traffic.
Objectives Identifying vehicle pollution blackspots.Assessing worst case scenarios.Evaluating impacts of vehicle emission control technologies.Determining impacts of traffic planning/calming schemes.
4 - REMOTE
Description A site in open country, located in an isolated rural area, experiencing regional background pollutant concentrations for much of the time.
Source Influences Regional/hemispheric background.
Objectives Assessing unpolluted global or hemispheric background conditions.Long-range transport studies.Long-term baseline trend analysis.
5 - ROADSIDE
Description A site sampling between 1m of the kerbside of a busy road and the back of the pavement. Typically this will be within 5m of the road, but could be up to 15m.
Source Influences Local traffic.
Objectives Assessing worst case population exposure.Evaluating impacts of vehicle emission controls.Determining impacts of traffic planning/calming schemes.
6 - SUBURBAN
Description A location type situated in a residential area on the outskirts of a town or city.
Source Influences Traffic, commercial, space heating, regionaltransport, urban plume downwind of a city.
Objectives Traffic and land-use planning.Investigating urban plumes.
7 - URBAN BACKGROUND
Description An urban location distanced from sources and therefore broadly representative of city-wide background conditions e.g. urban residential areas.
Source Influences Vehicle, commercial, space heating.
Objectives Trend analysis.Urban planning.Traffic and land-use planning.
8 - URBAN CENTRE
Description An urban location representative of typical population exposure in towns or city centres e.g. pedestrian precincts and shopping areas.
Source Influences Vehicle, commercial, space heating.
Objectives Identification of long-term urban trends.
9 - URBAN INDUSTRIAL
Description An area where industrial sources make an important contribution to the total pollution burden. Intermediate. 20-30m from the kerb of a busy road.
Source Influences Industrial, motor vehicles.
Objectives Assessing local impacts on health and amenity.Process optimization.Source attribution/identification.Providing model input data.Model development/validation.Local planning and plant authorization.
10 - INTERMEDIATE
Description 20-30m from the kerb of a busy road
Source Influences Vehicle, commercial, space heating.
Objectives Identification of long-term urban trends.
11 - AIRPORT
Description Monitoring within the boundary of an airport perimeter.
Source Influences Aircraft, vehicle, commercial, space heating.
Objectives Determine air quality impact of airport.