Chapter 10
About the Data
10.1 Air Quality in Madrid
Air pollution is harmful to health and contributes to respiratory and cardiac diseases, and has a negative impact on natural ecosystems, agriculture, and the built environment. In Spain, the principal pollutants are particulate matter (PM), tropospheric ozone, nitrogen dioxide, and environmental noise1.
The surveillance system of the Integrated Air Quality system of the Madrid City Council consists of twenty-four remote stations, equipped with analyzers for gases (NO_{X}, CO, ozone, BT_{X}, HCs, SO_{2}) and particles (PM10, PM2.5), which measure pollution in different areas of the urban environment. In addition, many of the stations also include sensors to provide meteorological data.
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