Bargo air quality monitoring station is located on a residential property at Silica Road, Bargo. It is in a rural area on the far south-west edge of the Sydney basin.
Air quality monitoring region | South West Sydney |
Commissioned | January 1996 |
Latitude | -34.30621 |
Longitude | 150.58061 |
Elevation | 365 metres |
Data collected
The following air pollutants and meteorological variables are currently measured at Bargo:
- Fine particles as PM10
- Fine particles as PM2.5
- Oxides of nitrogen (NO, NO2 and NOx)
- Ozone (O3)
- Sulfur dioxide (SO2)
- Visibility using nephelometry
- Ambient temperature
- Relative humidity
- Wind speed, wind direction and sigma theta