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Abstract
Abstract
Our research question is: what is the connection between cloud coverage and air quality? And how do they affect the difference in days? Our objective was to observe each day to not only find the correlation between air quality and cloud coverage but to also see how they affected New York as a whole. So far we have focused mostly on air quality and while doing so have noticed that air pollution plays a large part in this. The methods that we used for our research were the Purple Air website , and the GLOBE Observer app. With these tools, we were able to collect all of the data that we needed to prove our hypothesis. We all just set up a certain time throughout the days to collect our data, and try to be accurate as possible. Our hypothesis ended up being partially correct. There was in fact a correlation between cloud coverage and air quality, however not the kind we predicted. The result we found in this experiment was the greater the cloud coverage, the poorer the air quality was, as shown in our data. The best example of this was on December 18th when the cloud coverage was very overcast (95-100%) the air quality was worse(8-22). However our results also showed that the cloud coverage mattered less than the amount of aerosol in the air, because aerosols do inhibit the form of clouds.
12/8/2020
West 120th St
The sky is clear with very few pale blue low to mid level cumulus clouds. The air quality is good and safe to breath. This means Air quality is satisfactory, and air pollution poses little or no risk.
12/8/2020
West 120th St
The map shows us the level of air quality within the neighrborhood/area the picture was taken in. On this day the air quality was 2.
12/9/2020
West 120th St
It was an overcast day (>90%) with some Altostratus clouds covering up our sun for most of the day and the amount of cloud capacity was very Opaque.
12/9/2020
West 120th St
The air quality today was low in pollution just like the day prior so it is safe to go outside. Air quality is satisfactory, and air pollution poses little or no risk.
12/22/2020
Midtown, Madison Ave
The sky is very overcast with altostratus clouds in the sky. The air quality is moderate to unhealthy in some areas. This means members of sensitive groups may experience health effects. The general public is less likely to be affected.
12/22/2020
Midtown, Madison Ave
The air quality today was extremely high compared to other days. It reached 50.
Air Quality & cloud coverage in nyc
Air Quality & cloud coverage in nyc
This is our plot graph where we see how our air quality data relate to the cloud coverage on the different days. After downloading all the data and creating a data table we found that the average air quality was 16.9 PM 2.5 and the average cloud coverage was about 55.32%. There is also a noticeable positive trend-line in our data of about a 3.54 slope.
Discussion
Discussion
Our results answer our experimental question on if cloud coverage affects the air quality on different days, and that is false since we found out in our final data that aerosols are the big reason for such horrible air quality
Our data points aren't necessariy consistant and we discovered that the level of air quality and cloud coverage all depends on the aerosols in the air. Which means that cloud coverage and air quality really have no correlation.
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