AirAgora library
Air-quality guides
Sourced guides to AQI schemes, modeled data, pollutant context, activities, families, sensitive groups, schools, severe events, and forecast updates.
Read the context behind the number. These guides distinguish published facts from AirAgora’s product interpretation and avoid unsupported local pollution narratives.
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12 factual pages
Every page keeps sources, limitations, FAQs, and paths into the real tool.
Air quality for families: a careful guide to forecasts, routines, and alerts
Understand AQI labels, modeled limits, school and outdoor routines, sensitive-group language, privacy boundaries, all-poor days, and official guidance.
Open page →Air quality for schools: factual planning without school-site overclaiming
A guide for school communities on AQI context, modeled city forecasts, activity periods, institutional boundaries, alerts, privacy, and severe events.
Open page →Air quality for sensitive groups: interpreting public guidance carefully
A non-diagnostic guide to AQI sensitive-group language, index differences, activities, modeled limits, alerts, personal guidance, and severe conditions.
Open page →Cycling and air quality: forecast timing, route variation, and limits
Understand how to compare cycling windows while accounting for OpenWeather scales, duration, near-road variation, route cells, modeled provenance, and severe events.
Open page →European AQI vs U.S. AQI: why the numbers and labels differ
Compare European and U.S. AQI categories, learn why raw values cannot be converted directly, and understand why AirAgora keeps its OpenWeather runtime scale separate.
Open page →How often do air-quality forecasts update?
Understand model runs, provider timestamps, application caching, stale-on-error behavior, coalescing, and why a forecast time is not a station observation time.
Open page →Modeled vs observed air quality: what each data type can tell you
Understand the difference between a modeled OpenWeather forecast grid and a station observation, including coverage, timing, resolution, and responsible comparison.
Open page →Running and air quality: how to read a forecast without false precision
A factual guide to OpenWeather scales, exertion context, duration, route variation, modeled-grid limits, all-poor days, and AirAgora’s running planner.
Open page →Walking and air quality: choosing a time while respecting local limits
A practical guide to complete walking windows, AQI context, route differences, modeled data, stale forecasts, severe events, and privacy-safe location use.
Open page →What is the Air Quality Index? A practical AQI explainer
Learn what AQI categories communicate, what they leave out, why European and U.S. numbers differ, and how AirAgora uses a named index for planning.
Open page →What to do when air quality is poor across every available hour
Learn how AirAgora handles all-poor forecasts, least-polluted language, official warnings, provider uncertainty, sensitive groups, and non-paywalled caution.
Open page →Why air-quality apps disagree — and how to compare them fairly
A direct guide to differences in OpenWeather scale, timestamp, modeled grids, stations, averaging periods, location, refresh cadence, and pollutant choice.
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