One-third of monitoring sites in the Cascades and Sierra Nevada reported the lowest snowpack ever measured as of March 1, and some sites don't even have snow – unusual for this time of year.
The EU legal limit for nitrogen dioxide is an annual average of 40 micrograms per cubic metre of air, but monitoring sites in the UK frequently record higher levels.
Two monitoring sites in Kongju city were equipped with an automatic rainfall gauge and an automatic flow meter for measuring rainfall, water quality and runoff flow.
The figure below shows the median % packet loss for the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (BINP) in Novosibirsk measured from various monitoring sites in Canada, the U.S. and Japan.
To tackle both problems, we selected three typical air-quality monitoring sites in Hong Kong as our study targets, as the ozone variations at these sites are inhomogeneously affected by regional and local factors.
The work presented here is part of a project where observations from such an Australian catchment (the Tarrawarra) are utilised to estimate the discrepancy for individual soil moisture monitoring sites in reflecting generic catchment characteristics.
Figure 1 Water quality monitoring sites in Apulia region.
The Smithsonian Institution has inched closer to setting up a worldwide network of monitoring sites in coastal environments.
Furthermore, spatial data on the location of flora-fauna-habitats and environmental monitoring sites in the federal state of Brandenburg were integrated.
Wolfe envisions a worldwide network of dozens of monitoring sites in emerging disease hot spots to collect body fluid samples from people who interact with wild animals.
"The data we've got from monitoring sites in London, and also the modelling work we have done, has helped us understand why ozone has behaved the way it has - at least in London," she told BBC News.
