The Meteorological Agency of the Committee for Environmental Protection under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan has launched a web portal dedicated to monitoring air quality in the country. The resource is available at airquality.meteo.tj and operates in Tajik, Russian, and English, providing users with data on the current state of the atmosphere in the republic.
According to the agency, automatic air quality monitoring stations have been installed in nine regions of Tajikistan. Six of them are located in the country's capital, Dushanbe: at the S. Ayni Cultural and Recreational Park, on Rudaki Avenue, on the premises of the S. Umarov Institute of Physics and Technology of the National Academy of Sciences and the International Presidential School, as well as in residential districts 65 and 103. Three additional stations operate in the cities of Kulob, Vahdat, and Hisor.
The portal features an interactive map showing the locations of monitoring stations, graphs displaying concentrations of particulate matter (PM10 and PM2,5)—which are used to calculate the air quality index—as well as reference materials and recommendations for the public.
Site users can access data on the global air quality index, atmospheric conditions, and PM2,5 particle concentrations, as well as related meteorological indicators—temperature, wind speed, and humidity. In addition, the portal features a list of monitoring stations with PM2,5 and PM10 readings, a map of their locations, graphs showing air pollution trends, assessments of individual monitoring stations, and medical recommendations for cases where environmental conditions deteriorate.
According to the agency, the average air quality index for the republic was calculated based on data from nine monitoring stations. The figure displayed on the map is derived from actual atmospheric air conditions. The developers note that the portal is the first resource in the country to calculate air quality assessments using global models.