Air Quality Data
Air quality is known and valued to ensure clean, healthy air for today and tomorrow.
The Palliser Airshed Society (PAS) was established in the Spring of 2003 to monitor ambient air quality in the Medicine Hat / Redcliff region and has expanded to cover the southeastern portion of the province. PAS currently maintains three continuous monitoring sites (Medicine Hat, Brooks, and Taber) as well as 16 passive sampling sites distributed throughout the airshed.
Of the two continuous monitoring sites, the Crescent Heights (Medicine Hat) station provides real time data or NO2/NOx, SO2, O3, CO, THC, and PM2.5 and Meteorological Data. In addition, the two sites serviced by the portable airpointers, currently located in Brooks and Taber, provide real time data for NO2/NOx, O3, and PM2.5.
Air Quality Health Index Map and Resources
- Alberta AQHI Map
https://airquality.alberta.ca/map/ - Air quality data and reports
Access data and reports on various aspects of air quality from across the province.
https://www.alberta.ca/air-quality-data-and-reports - About the Air Quality Health Index
The Air Quality Health Index provides a number from 1 to 10 to indicate the level of relative health risk associated with local air quality.
https://www.alberta.ca/about-the-air-quality-health-index
Collecting and Reporting Ambient Air Data
PAS operates infrastructure and reports Ambient Air Data in compliance with Air Monitoring Directive (AMD) and alignment with South Saskatchewan Regional Plan (SSRP) and The Canadian Ambient Air Quality Standards (CAAQS).
(Left – Crescent Heights AQHI Monitor)
Provide oversight to ensure adherence to our Monitoring Plan
Provide continuous data from other areas within the airshed
Cost effective Air monitoring
Investigate and make effective use of available monitoring technologies and methodologies (passive, portable, sensors) where appropriate.