The Kyiv city air quality monitoring system has been officially integrated into the international IQAir service, the Kyiv City State Administration reports.
“Official data on air quality in the capital is available to users of the IQAir website, which forms the world rating of cities according to the state of atmospheric air. There is a network of five reference points for observing the state of atmospheric air of the European standard in Kyiv. They complement more than 40 indicative posts,” the statement reads. message in the Telegram channel.
Data from both types of monitoring points is available to users of the Kyiv Digital application, where they can also receive notifications about a high level of air pollution in the capital.
Data from all of the capital’s air quality monitoring points have been included in the “Kyiv Digital” application, said Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko.
“I will note that Kyiv continues to strengthen control over the state of atmospheric air. After all, military actions and shelling caused fires in the suburbs, from which the air condition on some days was unsatisfactory,” Klitschko stressed.
According to him, five stationary complexes of European standard are already working in the capital, carefully examining the quality of the air on about 10 indicators. It is also planned to add to them the measurement of the radiation background.
Kyiv plans to install three more stationary points of observation in Desniansky, Holosiyivsky and Sviatoshynsky districts in 2022.
There are also more than 40 indicative air monitoring stations in the capital, supplementing the data from the main stations.
