Equipment aims to aid University of Leicester research into air quality and its impact on health
Summer sees many people watching the weather forecast hoping for sun but some study another kind of forecast even more closely - pollen.Until recently the pollen forecast relied on time consuming microscope studies of air samples, delaying important information by around 24 hours.
The University of Birmingham, which installed the first machine in England, said the UK has one of the highest global rates of diagnosed asthma, affecting around 10% of adults. “I think the big change is that we can get real time data. I can come in in the morning, switch on my computer and see what the pollen is doing.
Professor of environmental epidemiology, Anna Hansell, said Leicester had 50 years of atmospheric data to inform new readings“The pollen seasons are starting earlier and they are going on for longer, so people are being exposed to pollen for longer and are getting hay fever for longer.“Our pollen forecasts are based on the current levels and the weather but as the weather changes we are going to have to change those models.
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