Last year, the air in Pljevlja was bad for 50 days, in Bijelo Polje for 30, in Podgorica for 25 and in Nikšić for 19 days, the Ecological Movement "Ozon" announced.
This non-governmental organization has prepared a new model for presenting air quality measurement results, based on the calculation of categories defined by the Environmental Protection Agency for the needs of the vazdut.me application.
OZON explained that the methodology is based on displaying the number of days with air categories - very good, good, acceptable, bad and very bad, based on daily average values of suspended particles PM10, PM2.5, SO2, NO2, and maximum daily eight-hour moving average values of O3 and CO in µg/m3.
According to this methodology, in Pljevlja last year the air was very bad for 50 days, bad for 53, and good for 142. In Bijelo Polje last year the air was very bad for 30 days, bad for 55, and good for 177.
In Podgorica, the air was very bad for 25 days, bad for 42, and good for 149. Last year, the air in Nikšić was very bad for 19 days, bad for 46, and good for 207.
The OZON statement states that the category is defined by the highest measured value of the pollutants in question.
It is stated that air quality categories visually follow the color shades of traffic lights, in order to present themselves more clearly to citizens.
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