Name: OpenAQ
License: CC BY 4.0

Description

Global, aggregated physical air quality data from public data sources provided by government, research-grade and other sources. These awesome groups do the hard work of measuring these data and publicly sharing them, and our community makes them more universally-accessible to both humans and machines.

Update Frequency

Minutely

License

CC BY 4.0

Documentation

https://openaq.org

Managed By

See all datasets managed by OpenAQ.

Contact

info@openaq.org

How to Cite

OpenAQ was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/openaq.

Usage Examples

Tutorials

Access OpenAQ data via a filterable SNS topic by OpenAQ
SNS
Analyze Global Air Pollution Using Apache Spark & BigQuery by Kapil Sreedharan
Build your own Air Quality Monitor with OpenAQ and EMR on EKS by Damon Cortesi
EMREKS
Using Athena to access the whole archive by OpenAQ
AthenaGlue

Tools & Applications

Publications

Enabling rapid COVID-19 and air pollution analysis across the globe with OpenAQ and AWS by Christa Hasenkopf

Resources on AWS

Description

Minutely CSVs of global air quality fetched from sources all over the world

Resource type

S3 Bucket

Amazon Resource Name (ARN)

arn:aws:s3:::openaq-fetches

AWS Region

us-east-1

AWS CLI Access (No AWS account required)

aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://openaq-fetches/

Explore

Browse Bucket
Description

Rich SNS topic for new measurements, 1 notification per measurement, more details here

Resource type

SNS Topic

Amazon Resource Name (ARN)

arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:470049585876:OPENAQ_NEW_MEASUREMENT

AWS Region

us-east-1
Description

SNS topic for new objects in the openaq-fetches bucket, roughly 6 objects per hour, more details here

Resource type

SNS Topic

Amazon Resource Name (ARN)

arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:470049585876:NewFetchObject

AWS Region

us-east-1
Description

OpenAQ API

Resource type

CloudFront Distribution

Hostname

api.openaq.org

AWS Region

us-east-1