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Temora

Farmland near Wagga Wagga. Credit: Rosie Nicolai/DPIE

About the station

Temora

Temora air quality monitoring station is located at the Bureau of Meteorology airport site, in the Riverina Local Land Services Natural Resource Management (NRM) Region.

An estimated 5,463 people live within 25km of this monitoring site (2016 census).

Air quality monitoring region Riverina-Murray
Commissioned 2007
Latitude -34.4278
Longitude 147.512
Elevation 279 metres

Data collected

The following air pollutants are currently measured at Temora:

  • Fine particles as PM10
  • Fine particles as PM2.5
  • Total Suspended Particles (TSP)

Instrument limitations – Most rural network stations use indicative monitors. While best efforts are made to ensure they respond similarly to standard-compliant instruments, care must be taken in interpreting the data compared with Air NEPM standards without additional information.