GIS and Pollution Data: Designating Regional Airsheds for Air Quality Management in India

Full journal article published hereDesignating Airsheds in India for Urban and Regional Air Quality Managementhttps://doi.org/10.3390/air2030015

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Datasets used for proposing India's 15 regional airsheds for air quality management are the following

PM2.5 DatasetsRaw data source: https://sites.wustl.edu/acag/datasets/surface-pm2-5

Gridded 0.1 degree resolution source apportionment results from WUSTL's global model simulationsFile: india_data_pm25_wustl_source_cont_0p1deg.xlsxAggregated Source definitions used in this presentation

1. DUST = Anthropogenic dust = AFCID

2. WINDUST = Wind erosion (dust storms) = WDUST

3. WASTE = Waste burning = WST

4. RESI = All commercial and residential cooking, lighting, and heating = RCOC + RCOO + RCORbiofuel + RCORcoal + RCORother

5. TRANS = All transport (excluding aviation) = ROAD + NRTR + SHP

6. POWER = Energy generation = ENEcoal + ENEother

7. INDUS = All industries and product use = INDcoal + INDother + SLV

8. BIOB = Biomass burning, including forest fires and agricultural waste burning = GFEDoburn + GFEDagburn

9. AGR = Agricultural activities (excluding agricultural waste burning) = AGR

10. OTHER = All others = OTHER

Gridded 0.1 degree resolution, reanalysis data from WUSTL's global model simulationsFile: india_data_pm25_wustl_reanalysis_0p1deg.xlsxTime period: 1998 to 2022, annual averages

Gridded 0.1 degree achive for monthly averages from WUSTL's global model simulationsFile: Download-44MB

Population DatasetsRaw data source: https://landscan.ornl.gov

Gridded 0.1 degree resolution population density dataFile: india_data_population_2021_0p1deg.xlsx

GIS databases used in this study

ESRI shapefile of 0.1 x 0.1 degree mesh file for the Indian Subcontinent covering longitudes from 67E to 99E and latitudes from 7N to 39NFile: india_gis_grids-0.1x0.1deg.rar

ESRI shapefile of India administrative level 2 data - 28 states and 8 union territories (as of December 2023)File: india_gis_states28+8_2023.rar

ESRI shapefile of India administrative level 3 data - 755 districts (as of December 2023): district23 and states23 codes are re-designed for emissions and pollution mapping and data tracking purposesFile: India_gis_districts755_2023.rar (original source: https://projects.datameet.org/maps)

ESRI shapefile of India's Agro-Climatic zonesFile: india_gis_agroclimatic_zones.rar (original source: https://karnataka.data.gov.in/resource/boundaries-agro-climatic-regions 

ESRI shapefile of India's meteorological sub-divisionsFile: india_gis_meteo_subdivisions.rar (original source: https://mausam.imd.gov.in)