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Professor Bill Barron tells us how to find our what the air quality in Hong Kong really is.
Dear all, some time ago I was asked about how to get current information on the air quality. So I've laid out some basic points here.
(1) google: environmental protection department Hong Kong
(2) click on the third reference -- the one that says "lists environmental pollution index ..."
(3) ignore fact that the site wants to send to you to the Air Pollution Index (API) since the API is heavily weighted by 24 hours averages and so in many respects is a measure of yesterday's pollution.
(4) instead on the left hand side click on "past 24 hour pollution".
(5) select the monitoring station. For those of you are likely to be out and about in the city, then check one of the roadside stations (Central, Causeway Bay, Mongkok).
(6) to interpret the risk, compare what you see for particular monitoring stations with the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines (which the HK government does not endorse because they feel it would make HK look bad and would be too expensive to meet). They have decided instead to study the matter of what air quality objectives Hong Kong should have and will get back to us in 2009.
(7) The major pollutants of concern here are: RSP (also called PM10), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), Ozone (O3), and sulphur dioxide (SO2).
For RSP the WHO only has a 24 hour average (no 1 hour limit) -- their maximum 24 hour average level is 50 micro grams per cubic meter; I usually simply 'eyeball' the 24 hours shown for a particular monitoring station to very roughly estimate determine if the level at a certain location has been running at some multiple of 50.
NO2: The WHO 1 hour limit for nitrogen dioxide is 200. WHO does not have a 24 hour recommended NO2 level.
O3: For Ozone the WHO has an 8 hour maximum level of 100.
SO2: for suplhur dioxide the WHO has a 24 hour limit of 20; this limit is often approached or exceeded in HK (in part due to marine pollution).
As I type this at 11:10 AM Dec. 13 2007, the 10AM reading for RSP at Causeway Bay was 187 (and appears to have averaged somewhat over 100 for the past 24 hours, i.e., more than twice the WHO recommended upper limit); for NO2 the 10 AM reading was 170; Ozone is not reported at ground level stations), and SO2 was 141(and over the past 24 hours appears to have averaged about 30 - 40 with a very strong upward trend at the moment.
Meanwhile at Tung Chung, RSP at 1in the last hour was 145 and rising very fast; NO2 was 94 and has been in that range for the past 24 hours (i.e., at about a 50% greater than the WHO guidelines); Ozone was 4.5 and SO2 in the past hour was 94 and rising very fast.
Today is shaping up to be a very bad air day and tomorrow’s AIP will show that.
(8) yet our most serious pollution worry tends not to be the really bad days (or even series of consecutive days) but the high annual average levels where we are often well above (several times higher than) the WHO maximum levels of RSP (20), NO2 (40) . In other words in contrast to some other places, our pollution problem is the chronically poor air we breathe rather than simply a few acute episodes.
Hope this helps,
Bill Barron
Bill Barron is with the Institute for the Environment of the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology and also works extensively with Christine Loh's Civic Exchange.
3 December - 10 December 2008
Professor Bill Barron tells us how to find our what the air quality in Hong Kong really is.
(4) instead on the left hand side click on "past 24 hour pollution".
As I type this at 11:10 AM Dec. 13 2007, the 10AM reading for RSP at Causeway Bay was 187 (and appears to have averaged somewhat over 100 for the past 24 hours, i.e., more than twice the WHO recommended upper limit); for NO2 the 10 AM reading was 170; Ozone is not reported at ground level stations), and SO2 was 141(and over the past 24 hours appears to have averaged about 30 - 40 with a very strong upward trend at the moment. 
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