Enhancing the region’s capability to understand the levels and distribution of air pollutants such as NO₂ (nitrogen dioxide gas) and PM_2.5  (particulate matter with diameter less than _2.5 micron), quantifying the contributions of sources such as traffic, industry, agriculture and wood burning, and monitoring improvements in air quality from policy interventions.

WM–Air is providing new measurements of the levels of air pollutants (augmenting existing monitoring and addressing gaps in knowledge), enhancing the West Midlands regions capability to understand the levels and distribution of air pollutants such as NO₂ and PM_2.5. 

Working with our partners, WM-Air is extending the air quality observation capability for particulate (PM) measurement, for targeted regions, and perform high resolution NO₂ measurements, and quantify PM sources (specifically exhaust vs non-exhaust) to inform future predictions of PM levels with increased use of alternative fuel and electric vehicles in the West Midlands. 

WM-air is able to provide guidance and expertise to stakeholders for air quality monitoring and data interpretation. This includes “low cost” sensors, their placement and interpretation of data obtained.