AQI
Published: August 14, 2009Acronym for Air Quality Index. The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) developed the AQI to make reading ambient air data more understandable to the general public. When ambient air data is collected, the numbers are converted from their concentration levels into numbers on a scale. That scale is the pollutant’s AQI value.
Acronym for Air Quality Index. The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) developed the AQI to make reading ambient air data more understandable to the general public. When ambient air data is collected, the numbers are converted from their concentration levels into numbers on a scale. That scale is the pollutant’s AQI value.