Use Cases

AQAI is using the OpenAQ platform to develop a machine learning predictive model for air quality showing child population density against regions with pollutant concentrations above WHO-recommended limits. AQAI is one of nine startups (out of 450 applicants) awarded investment funding from the read more...

The Bloomberg Green scoreboard shows which cities have the unhealthiest air, using data from the OpenAQ platform. A screenshot of the live air pollution scoreboard on the Bloomberg Green website Data are needed to slow and stop climate change. Measuring how far we have to go to arrest greenhouse read more...

The Problem Almost all urban residents in the world are breathing air that doesn’t meet World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for what is safe to breathe. In fact, 41% of cities have air pollution over 7 times higher than WHO’s recommendation \[State of Global Air 2022\]. Moreover, climate read more...

Health practitioners and policymakers need accurate information on health trends to improve health systems and combat health disparities. This crucial data is provided by the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study which is the largest study on worldwide trends in global health. The GBD is led by the read more...

Harmonized air quality measurements from the OpenAQ platform aided researchers who were awarded the 2021 Paul Crutzen Publication Award by the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. The awardees include Christoph A. Keller, Mathew J. Evans, K. Emma Knowland, Christa A. Hasenkopf, Sruti read more...

Data from the OpenAQ platform informed the development of (and continue to feed) a highly accurate air pollution prediction model for Los Angeles County and beyond. The Predicting What We Breathe (PWWB) model provides hourly air quality predictions for six pollutants–PM2.5, ozone, CO, CO2, NO, and read more...

The Sh\\t I Smoke! mobile app uses data from the OpenAQ platform to demonstrate the severity of air pollution by comparing it to cigarette smoking. Sh\\t I Smoke! was developed by Amaury Martiny and Marcelo Coelho. The Problem Air pollution is largely invisible. Most people don’t realize that read more...