The air testing department examines and assesses the air quality in Hamburg and
- operates in particular the automatic Hamburg air measurement network (HaLm),
- carries out air measurement programs,
- names private measuring institutes after a corresponding competence test and monitors their quality,
- is an expert on questions of air quality, measurement strategy and measurement technology for the Hamburg administration and within the framework of federal/state working groups and standardization committees.
Fields of work: - Automatic immission measurements (air measurement network), ozone warning service
- Manual immission measurements and inorganic air analysis
- Emission measurements, special analyses, approval of measuring points according to BlmSchG.
There are essentially three major source groups that contribute to the emission of pollutants in Hamburg and Germany:
- industry and power plants
- the traffic on the roads, in the air and on the water,
- domestic heating, i.e. heating in private and office buildings.
