Vienna Air Quality Measurements from Monthly and Annual Reports

Reports on air quality measurements by the Environmental Protection Department of the City of Vienna. The monthly and annual reports are published as PDFs according to the Immissionsschutzgesetz-Luft, with annual reports published by 31 July of the following year. The dataset is provided by Cooperation OGD Österreich and Wikimedia Österreich under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze long-term air quality trends based on annual report data.
• Monitor seasonal variations in pollution based on monthly report data.
• Assess compliance with air quality regulations based on the legal reporting framework mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Data is published under a CC-BY-4.0 license, allowing for broad reuse.
• Reports are generated according to a defined legal framework (Immissionsschutzgesetz-Luft).
• Publication deadlines for annual and monthly reports are specified, suggesting a regular update schedule.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data accessibility may be restricted under the Data Protection Act and Vienna Environmental Information Act, requiring case-by-case examination.

Provenance

Source

Environmental Protection Department of the City of Vienna

Collection Method

Official measurements and reporting under the Immissionsschutzgesetz-Luft.

Freshness

Annual reports are published by 31 July of the following year; monthly reports are published within three months of the reporting month.

Geography

City of Vienna, Austria