How does the Shair App work? A walkthrough of the Shair Map.

by Julia Luongo | Feb 25, 2021 | Science & Engineering

I sat down with Matt Holmes from Little Manila Rising for a webinar on February 17, 2021 describing the many features and functionality of the Shair air quality map. Ever wonder how to read the map or what the colors mean? How does the source apportionment feature...

Shair Published in GovTech – Users Can See San Francisco Air Quality in Real Time

https://www.govtech.com/health/Users-Can-See-San-Francisco-Air-Quality-in-Real-Time.html

Shair’s Earth Day Launch

by Prachi Goel | Apr 22, 2020 | Events, News, Science & Engineering

This Earth Day, the Shair team is excited to commemorate 50 years of environmental protection by launching the expanded Shair map, now covering all 9 counties of the Bay Area. Shair results for the SF Bay Area and Richmond modeling domains in California — see the map...

Shair March 2020 Webinar Q&A

by Prachi Goel | Apr 3, 2020 | Events, Policy & Insights, Science & Engineering

Below are the answers to the questions we received in our webinar we hosted last month. Questions have been consolidated and anonymized. This article will be edited to incorporate a few more responses that are pending. Read more through our whitepaper – sign up...

How Shair Estimates Traffic Emissions

by Prachi Goel | Apr 3, 2020 | Science & Engineering

Written by Tasko Olevski and Prachi Goel If urban planning in the 20th century was defined by the rise and expansion of the Automotive City, the planning discourse of the early 21st century centers around how to deconstruct it. The motivations — fatal car accidents,...

Shair revised the color scale — why?

by Julia Luongo | Mar 5, 2020 | Science & Engineering

When we first launched Shair in Richmond back in December 2019, the Shair team decided to use the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Air Quality Index (AQI) scale for PM2.5, PM10, and NO2 for our hourly real-time model data. Because the AQI is an index for...