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The links below may take you to other external websites and you will leave these air quality pages.</p> <p><a href="air-quality-modelling"><strong>Air pollution modelling</strong></a></p> <p>Defra and the Devolved Administrations carry out air quality modelling both to provide information on concentrations of pollutants in places where we do not monitor and to predict concentrations under different situations, for example in the future or as a result of possible new policies.</p> <p><a href="ozone-uv/"><strong>UK Stratospheric Ozone and UV Measurements</strong></a></p> <p>The UK Stratospheric Ozone and UV monitoring programme funded by Defra and the Devolved Administrations provides ozone and UV background information and includes a map of the ozone and UV monitoring stations across the UK.</p> <p><a href="research-monitoring"><strong>Research Monitoring</strong></a></p> <p>Defra and the Devolved Administrations support a number of research networks that gather data about certain air 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