Funded by the Government of Bermuda's Department of Environmental Protection to provide air quality monitoring services, the Air Quality Program maintains a field laboratory at Fort Prospect, close to the City of Hamilton, and at the Tynes Bay Waste Treatment Facility, home of Bermuda's municipal solid waste incinerator.
At this site the following parameters are recorded:
- meteorological data: WS, WD, temperature, relative humidity and barometric pressure;
- airborne particulate matter: TSP, PM10 and PM2.5;
- toxic gases: SO2 and NOx;
- rain and aerosol chemistry: major ions, conductivity and pH;
- mercury in air and rainfall;
- polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in air.
Other sites in Bermuda are also routinely monitored, targeting emissions from electrical power generation and
road traffic.
The Prospect field station is also host to one of the NOAA Baseline Surface Radiation Network sites and a NASA
Aeronet site, both of which are maintained by AQP personnel.
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