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dust-analyzer
European air quality MCP server — Saharan dust, SO₂, PM2.5 from CAMS/Copernicus as interactive Plotly charts in Claude Desktop. Daily updated, no API key needed.
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What's in it
- Data offered docs-verified
- Saharan dust (µg/m³) · Sulphur dioxide SO₂ (µg/m³) · PM2.5 (µg/m³) · UBA station overlay · Analysis and forecast fields
- Coverage docs-verified
- Central Europe (44–56°N, 2–18°E)
- Resolution docs-verified
- 0.1° × 0.1° (~10 km), hourly
- Update frequency docs-verified
- Daily (scheduled 13:30 UTC via GitHub Actions)
- Formats docs-verified
- Parquet · Plotly interactive charts (HTML, MCP Apps)
- Access docs-verified
- Free and open. The MCP server needs no API key because it reads the public GitHub Release. Licence: MIT. CAMS_API_KEY is only needed for self-hosting CI or local CAMS downloads in the CLI.
Useful for
- Use cases llm-inferred
- Check whether a Saharan dust episode is affecting site air quality before dust-sensitive construction works · Pull regional SO₂ and PM2.5 background context for an air quality assessment in Central Europe · Compare pollutant time series across up to 5 cities for a planning or consultation report
- Audience llm-inferred
- air quality consultants · environmental consultants · planners · GIS analysts
Limitations
- Constraints llm-inferred
- Coverage is Central Europe (44–56°N, 2–18°E). Most of the UK lies west of 2°E, outside this area. · Modelled CAMS data at ~10 km resolution, not site monitoring. The registry auth field lists CAMS_API_KEY, but the docs say the MCP server needs no key. · Depends on the daily GitHub Actions job and the data-latest release; outages upstream would stop updates. · Runs as a local install (uv, cloned repo) inside Claude Desktop or Cursor, so it needs a desktop MCP client. · Parameter schemas for the MCP tools are not documented in DOCS.
- Licence
- Unknown — check provider terms
- Authentication
- API key via env: CAMS_API_KEY (auto-extracted from README)
- GitHub stars
- 2
- Last commit
- 30/03/2026
- Last successful page check
- 14/10/2026
- Page health
- healthy
- Package
- Not recorded
- Verification
- Not independently verified
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Metadata observed 15/10/2026 · research sweep: github-search