ambient air quality

in atmospheric chemistry
https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.A00260
A general term used to describe the quality of the outside air. Usually adjectives such as good, fair, bad, etc. are used by the media to describe this; often some form of @A00195@ or air quality index is employed to determine the specific descriptive term to be used. These are very qualitative terms of little or no scientific value.
See also:
air pollution index
Source:
PAC, 1990, 62, 2167. (Glossary of atmospheric chemistry terms (Recommendations 1990)) on page 2173 [Terms] [Paper]
Citation: 'ambient air quality' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 3rd ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2006. Online version 3.0.1, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.A00260 RIS BibTex EndNote
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