据《science》最新消息,一款可实时监测空气质量状况的新型仪器问世。

雾霾在身边,中国空气污染已成为人们心中“会呼吸的痛”。据报道,每年因为空气污染而死亡的早产新生儿达1600万,触目心惊的背后使我们不得不面对的现实。

基于这种现状,考虑到家人的健康状况,位于北京的数据科学家Yann Boquillod有些坐不住。他出资创建了名为AirVisual Earth的智能空气质量检测器,该检测器可根据人造卫星和超过8000个的监测站提供的信息,通过整合数据处理,实时观测,展现全球空气污染状况。

这种空气质量检测器主要通过展现风向的流动模式和通过不同颜色表示(指空气动力学直径小于等于2.5微米的细颗粒,可吸入细支气管和肺泡中,对人体危害极大。)的浓度来体现空气质量状况。用户可放大,倾斜,旋转以便更好地观看。

Yann Boquillod指出,这样是为了让人们能更深入的了解空气质量状况,从而为下一步更好的治理空气污染做好打算。除此之外,他还为提供了一款可观测600多个不同城市未来三天空气质量的软件,最近它已经开始售卖,用户可通过其实时观测室内和室外空气质量状况。

以下为英文全文：

Watch air pollution flow across the planet in real time

China’s air is notoriously toxic: Each year, it contributes to the premature deaths of some 1.6 million people. Concerned about how such pollution was affecting his family, Beijing-based data scientist Yann Boquillod founded AirVisual Earth, an online air pollution map that uses data from satellites and more than 8000 monitoring stations to display global air pollution in real time. The AirVisual Earth interactive maps prevailing wind patterns and sh color-coded concentrations of—airborne particulate matter less than 2.5 microns in diameter that can penetrate deep into the lungs. Users can zoom in, tilt, and spin the globe for better viewing. The air pollution visualization was crafted “so people really understand how bad it is,” says Boquillod, who hopes an informed citizenry will pressure governments and communities to clear the air. AirVisual also delivers 3-day air pollution forecasts for 6000 cities to smartphones, and it recently began selling low-cost monitors people can use to track indoor and outdoor air pollution. “People want to share that data,” Boquillod says.