pollucheck

Abstract

pollucheck can handle real-time pollution and co-located meteorological data (if available) from the three most popular open-source air pollution databases: OpenAQ, AirNow, and Indian Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) dashboard. While CPCB data are specific to Indian regulatory monitoring stations, OpenAQ hosts the global open-source pollution databases and AirNow hosts the global PM~2.5~ (mass concentration of particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter less than or equal to 2.5 microns) data, collected under the United States Embassy and Consulates' air quality monitoring programmes.

Pollution data from these sources are typically in different file formats and templates that require customised codes or programmes for analysis. Also, a rigorous quality check of the data is preferred before visualization (plotting) and reporting. pollucheck offers a single-stop solution for

(i) handling the pollution data from the open-source databases,

(ii) applying a suite of quality check options,

(iii) generating a variety of summary statistics at various averaging intervals,

(iv) performing time series analysis,

(v) generating a bunch of temporal and statistical plots, and

(vi) comparing data from two input files.

pollucheck is hosted online on shinyapps.io and can be installed to serve locally from GitHub.

Load and run pollucheck as follows:

install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("adithirgis/pollucheck")
pollucheck::pollucheck_run()