Agrimonia: a dataset on livestock, meteorology and air quality in the Lombardy region, Italy

TL;DR

This paper introduces Agrimonia, a comprehensive harmonized dataset combining air quality, meteorology, emissions, livestock, and land use data for Lombardy, Italy, from 2016 to 2021, to facilitate research on agricultural impacts on air pollution.

Contribution

The paper provides a novel, integrated dataset specifically designed to support studies on the agricultural sector's influence on air quality in Lombardy.

Findings

Dataset covers 2016-2021 for Lombardy

Includes data from multiple European agencies and projects

Aims to support air quality research related to agriculture

Abstract

The air in the Lombardy region, Italy, is one of the most polluted in Europe because of limited air circulation and high emission levels. There is a large scientific consensus that the agricultural sector has a significant impact on air quality. To support studies quantifying the role of the agricultural and livestock sectors on the Lombardy air quality, this paper presents a harmonised dataset containing daily values of air quality, weather, emissions, livestock, and land and soil use in the years 2016 - 2021, for the Lombardy region. The pollutant data come from the European Environmental Agency and the Lombardy Regional Environment Protection Agency, weather and emissions data from the European Copernicus programme, livestock data from the Italian zootechnical registry, and land and soil use data from the CORINE Land Cover project. The resulting dataset is designed to be used as is by those using air quality data for research.