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Environmental quality A smarter London - avoiding air pollution and improving health outcomes. Gary Fuller and Andrew Grieve, King’s College London June 2013 Gary.Fuller@kcl.ac.uk Andrew.Grieve@kcl.ac.uk.
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Environmental qualityA smarter London - avoiding air pollution and improving health outcomes Gary Fuller and Andrew Grieve, King’s College London June 2013 Gary.Fuller@kcl.ac.ukAndrew.Grieve@kcl.ac.uk
The health burden of one air pollutant (PM2.5) in London is estimated at Air over 4000 extra deaths each year (based on 2008) (Miller et al 2010).Over 100 monitoring sites measure air pollution continuously in and around London.
Assess compliance with EU and UK law, to track progress and sources. • Run 20m resolution models each hour. • Provide information to London’s through websites, on-line data bases (over 400M measurements) and smart phone apps
API to allow developers to use LondonAir data and hourly maps • More and better activity data (traffic and people) to improve models and health impact assessment