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Oakdale

Lake Burragorang, Nattai National Park. Credit: John Spencer/DPIE

About the station

Oakdale

Oakdale air quality monitoring station is located on a residential property at Ridge Road, Oakdale. It is in a rural area on the far south-west edge of Sydney basin.

Air quality monitoring region South West Sydney
Commissioned April 1996
Latitude -34.0517
Longitude 150.49819
Elevation 457 metres

Data collected

The following air pollutants and meteorological variables are currently measured at Oakdale:

  • Fine particles as PM10
  • Fine particles as PM2.5
  • Oxides of nitrogen (NO, NO2 and NOx)
  • Ozone (O3)
  • Visibility using nephelometry
  • Ambient temperature
  • Precipitation
  • Relative humidity
  • Solar radiation
  • Wind speed, wind direction and sigma theta