The Biomass Smoke Validated Events Database

The Biomass Smoke Validated Events Database is an open and extensible data collection recording historical spikes in air pollution and validation of whether they were caused by biomass smoke (e.g. from burning vegetation or forest fires). This collection contains validated events of extreme biomass smoke pollution across several major urban centres and smaller regional towns in the Australian States of New South Wales, Western Australia, and Tasmania that are intermittently affected by extreme episodes of biomass smoke. The collection provides researchers with tools that allow them either to add new data, or to use the existing data to study new statistical associations between pollution spikes and health outcomes around those days. Exposure to smoke from biomass burning is a contributor to morbidity and mortality in groups susceptible to the health effects of smoke.

Researchers are invited to extend the database with new events or additional data for already identified events.

生物质燃烧烟雾验证事件数据库（Biomass Smoke Validated Events Database）是一个开放且可扩展的数据集集合，用于记录历史空气污染峰值事件，并验证此类事件是否由生物质燃烧烟雾（例如植被焚烧或森林火灾产生的烟雾）所引发。该数据集收录了澳大利亚新南威尔士州、西澳大利亚州与塔斯马尼亚州内多个主要城市中心及小型区域城镇的经验证极端生物质燃烧烟雾污染事件——上述地区会间歇性遭遇极端生物质烟雾污染事件。本数据集为研究人员提供了配套工具，既支持其新增数据，也可依托现有数据开展污染峰值时段与当日周边健康结局间新型统计关联的研究。生物质燃烧烟雾暴露是导致易受烟雾健康影响人群发病与死亡的重要诱因之一。
诚邀研究人员为该数据库补充新增事件，或为已识别事件补充更多相关数据。