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Carrington

Aerial view of Newcastle. Credit: John Spencer/DPIE

About the station

Carrington

Carrington air quality monitoring site is in a park opposite the intersection of Hargrave and Garrett Streets (Carrington). It is one of the three Newcastle Local Air Quality Monitoring Network (NLAQMN) stations commissioned in August 2014. This monitoring site is not designated as an Ambient Air Quality National Environment Protection Measure (NEPM) compliance monitoring station.

Air quality monitoring region Lower Hunter
Commissioned August 2014
Latitude -32.90964
Longitude 151.76335
Elevation 5 metres

Data collected

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

  • Fine particles as PM10
  • Fine particles as PM2.5
  • Oxides of nitrogen (NO, NO2 and NOx)
  • Sulfur dioxide (SO2)
  • Ambient temperature
  • Precipitation
  • Relative humidity
  • Wind speed, wind direction and sigma theta