The UK Government Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Defra have provided significant funding towards openair through the AEA AURN contract.
AEA Technology are major contributors to the openair project. They have provided funding, helped with function development and are working towards incorporating appropriate openair functionality into the air quality archive which will aid analysis and visualisation of monitoring data from the National networks.
North Lincolnshire Council have helped to provide some very useful case study information concerning industrial emissions, together with funding towards a case study.
Sefton Council provided initial funding to get the openair project up and running. Sefton Council was awarded Beacon status for its air quality activities.
AirTrack is a "sister" project led by Lancaster University with complimentary aims to openair, also funded by NERC. Leeds and Lancaster are collaborating to ensure a coordinated effort in this area.
