Welcome to sulfur dioxide air pollution!

Cumbrevieja is a volcano located in la Palma island. It's an active volcano producing sulfur dioxide gases in the atmosphere.

The weekend 25 to 26 of september 2021 air polution form the volcano arrived to Catalonia as you can see in the following graph.

The graph was created using matplotlib library in python and the code is below.

Data are obtaiend from the air pollution website of Generalirar de Catalunya.


  import matplotlib.pyplot as plot  # It makes accesible all the instructions and codes contained in matplotlib in order to create graphs

x = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,]
  # x data is 48 hours data obtained from Generalitat data base coresponding to SO2 in the weekend of interest
y = [ [2,2,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,11,24,17,8,1,1,1,1,1,11,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1],
      [1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,4,6,5,2,2,1,1,1,1,1,11,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1],
      [1,2,2,2,3,2,3,3,2,2,3,2,1,1,1,1,1,2,3,3,2,2,2,22,2,4,4,3,2,2,2,4,5,6,5,4,4,4,4,3,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,] ]
      # y data are SO2 levels hour by hour in the 3 cities indicated in labels
labels=['Manlleu', 'Manresa', 'MatarĂ³']
colors=['r','g','b']
  # colors of the 3 cities are r- red, g- green and b- blue
  
# loop over data, labels and colors
for i in range(len(y)):
    plt.plot(x,y[i],'o-',color=colors[i],label=labels[i])
plt.title("AIR SULFUR DIOXIDE IN CATALONIA", loc='left')
plt.xlabel("Hours of weekend 25-26/09/2021")
plt.ylabel("SO2 microgram/m3")
plt.legend()
plt.show()