@shootismoke/convert

A library to convert between various Air Quality Indexes (US, CN...) and their equivalent in pollutant concentration (µg/m³, ppm, ppb).

Supported Air Quality Indexes

AQI	AQI Code1	Pollutants	Resources
AQI (US)	usaEpa	co, no2, o3, pm10, pm25, so2	US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) [link]
AQI (CN)	chnMep	co, no2, o3, pm10, pm25, so2	China Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) [link]

We also plan to support other AQIs in the future, see issue #15 if you want to help.

_{¹: We use the same AQI code as Breezometer, the only difference is that the code here is camelCase, because JavaScript likes camelCase.}

⚡ Get Started

Install the package:

yarn install @shootismoke/convert

The package mainly exports the convert function.

convert(pollutant, from, to, value)

The function can convert, for any pollutant:

• from a raw concentration to a supported AQI
• from a supported AQI to a raw concentration
• from a supported AQI to another AQI

Arguments:

• pollutant: Pollutant: One of the supported pollutants, see them.
• from: AqiCode | 'raw': An AQI code or the 'raw' string
• to: AqiCode | 'raw': An AQI code or the 'raw' string
• value: number: The value to convert

import { convert, getPollutantMeta } from '@shootismoke/convert';

// Convert PM2.5 from usaEpa AQI to raw concentration
const raw = convert('pm25', 'usaEpa', 'raw', 57);
console.log(raw); // 15

console.log(getPollutantMeta('pm25').preferredUnit); // "µg/m³", which is the unit of the value 15 above

// Convert PM2.5 from raw concentration to usaEPA AQI
const aqi = convert('pm25', 'raw', 'usaEpa', 15);
console.log(aqi); // 57

Supported Pollutants

The pollutants the AQIs apply to are: 'bc' | 'co' | 'c6h6' | 'ox' | 'nh3' | 'nmhc' | 'no' | 'nox' | 'no2' | 'o3' | 'pm10' | 'pm25' | 'so2' | 'trs'. Check this file to see the metadata for each pollutant (full name, unit...).

Full Documentation

See the API reference documentation.

🙋 Contribute

1. Fork the repo
2. Make your changes in your own fork
3. Make sure yarn lint and yarn test pass
4. Create a Pull Request on this repo

Tests

Look out for *.spec.ts in the codebase. Run:

yarn test

📰 License

GPL-3.0. See LICENSE file for more information.