1. Finedust Germany
New Year’s Eve 2020
Night from 31st of December 2020 to 1st of January 2021
Wolfgang Ksoll
Source http://luftdaten.info

2. Introduction
• Screenshots of the fine dust pollution are taken from luftdaten.info to get an impression
how pollution with fine dust (PM2.5) over time and space in New Years Eve 2020
• This year the pollution was much lower than the years before in Germany
• In UK, Netherlands, Poland, Italy pollutionwas very high as every year far upon normally allowed
limits
• For comparison screen shots from two year before are attached behind.
• Server performance was good so that no details are missing
• Roughly 4,500 tons in former years of finedust emitted
• But only some 2,050 tons in 2019/2020
• See also:
https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/presse/pressemitteilungen/2050-tonnen-feinstaub-durch-
feuerwerk-pro-jahr(German)
• For New Years Eve 2017 (Silvester) see
http://wk-blog.wolfgang-ksoll.de/2018/01/06/open-data-feinstaub-silvester-2017neujahr-2018/
• For New Years Eve 2018 (Silvester) see
http://wk-blog.wolfgang-ksoll.de/2019/01/01/open-data-feinstaub-silvester-2018neujahr-2019/
• For New Years Eve 2019 (Silvester) see
http://wk-blog.wolfgang-ksoll.de/2020/01/01/open-data-feinstaub-silvester-2019neujahr-2020/
Wolfgang Ksoll, woksoll@gmx.de

19. Backup 2019

20. Finedust Germany
New Year’s Eve 2019
Night from 31st of December 2019 to 1st of January 2020
Wolfgang Ksoll
Source http://luftdaten.info

21. Introduction
• Screenshots of the fine dust pollution are taken from luftdaten.info to get an impression
how pollution with fine dust (PM10) over time and space in New Years Eve 2019
• For comparison screen shots from the year before are placed on the same slide if available
• Server performance was slow so that some details are missing
• Roughly 4,500 tons of finedust emitted (10% less than last year?)
• 15% of finedust emissions in street traffic
• 2,25 % of all finedust emissions (coal and wood burning, ships, cars, etc.)
• See also:
https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/themen/dicke-luft-jahreswechsel (German)
• For New Years Eve 2017 (Silvester) see
http://wk-blog.wolfgang-ksoll.de/2018/01/06/open-data-feinstaub-silvester-2017neujahr-2018/
• For New Years Eve 2018 (Silvester) see
http://wk-blog.wolfgang-ksoll.de/2019/01/01/open-data-feinstaub-silvester-2018neujahr-2019/
Wolfgang Ksoll, woksoll@gmx.de

22. 31.12.2018 15:50
31.12.2019 15:50

23. 31.12.2019 17:07
31.12.2018 17:30

24. 31.12.2019 19:03
31.12.2018 19:00

25. 31.12.2019 20:57
31.12.2019 21:00

26. 31.12.2019 20:57
31.12.2018 23:00

27. 31.12.2019 23:52
31.12.2018 23:50

28. 1.1.2020 00:20
1.1.2019 00:25

29. 1.1.2020 02:02
1.1.2019 02:00

30. 1.1.2020 06:43
1.1.2019 06:45

31. 1.1.2020 09:09
1.1.2019 08:30

32. 1.1.2020 12:08
1.1.2019 10:30

33. https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/themen/dicke-luft-jahreswechsel

34. Findings
• The pollution is increasing all the evening with climax at 00:25 on New Year
• The Netherlands start pollution in the afternoon
• Server is very slow in the night: a lot of people are watching the data in real time
(should be put on Kubernetes containers with load balancing to keep good response times)
• In the next morning at 12:00 air is not clean again as in the year before at 8:00
• The comparison with last year shows clearly that this year was worse than last year
• See also:
Roughly 4,500 tons of finedust emitted (10% less than last year?)
• 15% of finedust emissions in street traffic
• 2,25 % of all finedust emissions (coal and wood burning, ships, cars, etc.)
https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/themen/dicke-luft-jahreswechsel (German)
• https://kachelmannwetter.com/de/luftqualitaet/deutschland/pm10-feinstaub/20191231-2300z.html
• For New Years Eve 2017 (Silvester) see
http://wk-blog.wolfgang-ksoll.de/2018/01/06/open-data-feinstaub-silvester-2017neujahr-2018/
• For New Years Eve 2018 (Silvester) see
http://wk-blog.wolfgang-ksoll.de/2019/01/01/open-data-feinstaub-silvester-2018neujahr-2019/
Wolfgang Ksoll, woksoll@gmx.de