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1,3-Butadiene (C4H6)
Acid Deposition
Acid Rain
Air Pollution Bandings
Air Pollution Bulletins
Air Pollution Index
Air Pollution Information Service
Air Quality Management Area (AQMA)
Air Quality Objectives
Air Quality Standards
Air Quality Strategy
Ambient Air
Annual Mean
Automatic Monitoring
BAM (Beta Attenuation Mass Monitor)
Benzene (C6H6)
Black Smoke
Carbon Monoxide (CO)
COMEAP
Data Capture
Days with Exceedences
Diffusion Tube Samplers
Dispersion model
EMEP (Co-operative Programme for Monitoring and Evaluation of the Long-Range Transmission ofAir pollutants in Europe)
Emission Factor
Emission Inventories
EPAQS

EU Directives
Exceedence
Global Warming
Gravimetric Equivalent PM10 Data
Greenhouse Gases
Hydrocarbons
Local Air Quality Action Plan
Local Air Quality Management (LAQM)
Maximum hourly average
Microgrammes per cubic metre (µg/m³)
National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory (NAEI).
National Statistics
Oxides of Nitrogen (NOx)
Ozone (O3)
PAHs
Particulate matter (PM10)
Percentile
POPS
ppb
ppm
Running mean
Sulphur Dioxide (SO2)
TEOM
TOMPS
Trajectory Model
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs)
Zones and Agglomerations

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