PlumePGH Helps Pittsburghers Visualize How Emissions Travel Into Their Neighborhoods
Pittsburghers are all too familiar with the smell of sulfur dioxide emissions, but its invisible. Now, residents can get a better visual of how air pollutants float across the region on a daily basis. Carnegie Mellon University’s CREATE Lab has launched PlumePGH, a new map from the makers of the lab’s popular app SmellPGH, which allows users to track the origin of pollution as well as how it correlates with reports of stinky air. The map shows the four largest emitters of SO2 and other sulf...
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