outdoor air

habitatmech:GOLD.d263dfb09c ·AIR ·UNGROUNDED REVIEWED

Air which is not enclosed by a building envelope or other construction, and which is therefore in continuous exchange with the planetary atmosphere. — HabitatMech

Source attestations

Each upstream vocabulary's own account of this habitat. Assertion counts are per-source units and are not comparable across sources — GOLD counts organisms, BacDive strains, PREGO taxa.

What each upstream vocabulary says about this habitat
Source	Label / path	Assertions	Unit
GOLD	Environmental > Air > Outdoor Air 3 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.	42	ORGANISM

Broader habitats

air ENVO:00002005

Also called

ambient air — HabitatMech curation

Curation

What a curator decided about this record, and why. A record built from several source concepts can carry one decision per concept.

CONFIRM_UNGROUNDED 2026-08-13 · claude-opus-5
Confirmed UNGROUNDED: no ontology term fits this concept. Nearest broader term ENVO:00002005 'air' attached as a parent. Outdoor air. The mapping table pointed this at ENVO:01000829, which it labels 'outdoor air' and ENVO labels 'water vapour saturated air'. No outdoor-air term in the slice; parented to air. Term request. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.d263dfb09c)
DEFINED 2026-08-28 · claude-opus-5
Defined as 'outdoor air' under ENVO:00002005 'air'. Definition authored from the record's committed deep-research report under research/habitats/, read in full; the report's proposed sentence, genus and near-miss table are the evidence. No new research was commissioned. The enclosure split is the primary partition of GOLD's whole Air branch and is written into US 40 CFR 50.1(e) and EU Directive 2008/50/EC. The report's public-access qualifier in those legal texts is regulatory scoping and is deliberately NOT imported: air over a fenced yard is still outdoor air. Requested as a pair with indoor air. Dropped the source label 'Outdoor Air' from exact_synonym (#213), on the same reasoning as the indoor-air row: case-only variants of the requested label are not synonyms. 'ambient air' is the attested one and is kept.

Provenance

Generated by scripts/seed_from_sources.py from the committed inventories in data/raw/. View the record.