pollencounting
Copernicus: First automated pollen measurements allow cross-checking forecasts in several European countries in near-real-time
The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) today announces the first step in a joint initiative with the European Aeroallergen Network (EAN) to automated pollen monitoring in several European countries. Under the auspices of the Network of European National Meteorological Services (EUMETNET), various pollen monitoring sites have been equipped with automated observation capability as part of the “Autopollen” […]
New website pollenscience.eu
The aim of the Pollen Science website is to collect and graphically display the data of different measuring networks and stations for pollen flight in a database. This makes it easy and interactive to determine when and how many pollens of the different species are currently measured in the air or when they have been […]
Pan-European initiative to provide pollen forecasts based on near real-time observations
The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring service (CAMS) recently formed a new partnership with the European Aeroallergen Network (EAN,) and will explore ground breaking technology to deliver automatic pollen observations in near real-time across Europe. Every year during spring and early summer comes a chorus of sneezing, wheezing and sniffling, because this is peak hay fever season […]
Different techniques to identify pollen.
As pollengrains are very, very small and are floating through the air, identifying them is a pretty difficult job. You’ll can use a microscope to identify the type of pollen. Pollengrains are not like fashionmodels who can stand still and wait for the phototgrapher to take shot. So often the pollengrains are collected by a […]
Process of Automatic Pollencounting
The process starts bottom left with trees, grasses or herbs producing pollen, which become airborn. Step 1. Collect & fix pollen Collecting these pollen from the air with some kind of vacuum cleaner. Of course the volume of air processed in a certain period of time is important since you want information about the concentration […]
Birch
The Birch is not the first trees in the season which flowers, but it has highly allergenic pollen. Although there is a flowering-calendar which indicates the usual period of flowering, you can see in the graph this can vary a lot. In 2017 there was a birchpollen peak (in the Netherlands) at the end of […]
Grasspollen concentration by day
There are several types of grass which release allergenic pollen, like rye, timothy, orchard and bermuda, but also corn pollen can cause problems. You can see in the graph below that the flowering period (in the Netherlands) starts early may and lasts until the end of july. About Grasses Poaceae or Gramineae is a large […]