Agrimonia: a dataset on livestock, meteorology and air quality in the Lombardy region, Italy
18.03.2023
Alessandro Fassò (University of Bergamo, Dept. of Economics), Jacopo Rodeschini (University of Bergamo, Dept. of Economics), Alessandro Fusta Moro (University of Torino, Dept. of Economics and Statistics), Qendrim Shaboviq (Leibniz University Hannover, Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics), Paolo Maranzano (University of Milano-Bicocca, Dept. of Economics, Management and Statistics, and Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei), Michela Cameletti (University of Bergamo, Dept. of Economics), Francesco Finazzi (University of Bergamo, Dept. of Economics), Natalia Golini (University of Torino, Dept. of Economics and Statistics), Rosaria Ignaccolo (University of Torino, Dept. of Economics and Statistics), Philipp Otto (Leibniz University Hannover, Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics)
Springer Nature
"Scientific Data", 2023
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 daily scale is obtained by averaging hourly data and interpolating other variables. In fact, 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.