ROADSIDE GARDEN SOCAL
Roadside Garden Socal is a desktop application that downloads and visualizes daily amounts of O3 (ozone) and NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) in the atmosphere in Southern Californiain the form of a small roadside tree next to a live Souther California highway webcam.

Webcam image from the California Department of Transportation. Daily amounts of O3 and NO2 updated hourly provided by the South Coast Air Quality Management District AQMD www.aqmd.gov. NO2 air pollution is primarily caused by motor vehicles and, in some places, by energy production. Ozone (O3) is formed when other pollutants react to light. Thanks to Kevin Durkee and the South Coast AQMD for assistance in retrieving the data.

Above is a pre-recorded version presenting data from March 12, 2007

Download the real-time application (stuffed archive .sit)
Mac OSX : socal.application.macosx.sit
Windows : socal.application.windows.sit
Linux : socal.application.linux.sit

Source code: roadside garden socal

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Andrea Polli 2007