Penrith air quality monitoring station is located at the corner of Laycock Street and Shellbourne Place in Cranebrook, a residential-cum-commercial area.
Air quality monitoring region | North West Sydney |
Commissioned | June 2020 |
Latitude | -33.72687 |
Longitude | 150.70385 |
Elevation | 27 metres |
Data collected
The following air pollutants and meteorological variables are measured at Penrith:
- Fine particles as PM10
- Fine particles as PM2.5
- Carbon monoxide (CO)
- Oxides of nitrogen (NO, NO2 and NOx)
- Ozone (O3)
- Sulfur dioxide (SO2)
- Visibility using nephelometry
- Ambient temperature
- Precipitation
- Relative humidity
- Wind speed, wind direction and sigma theta