Workshop on Real time air pollution data exchange and forecast in Europe

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Workshop onReal time air pollution data exchange
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Working Group on Environment
European Environment Agency
EFNet proposal Objective and Idea Ingo
Jacobsen Deutscher Wetterdienst
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Working Group on Environment
European Environment Agency
Workshop on Ground-level Ozone Forecasting 21
23 February 2000, Langen (Germany)
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Working Group on Environment
European Environment Agency

• Recommendations
• Ozone measurement data should be made publicly
  available on the Internet, preferably using a
  standard format. The data should appear in near
  real time, i.e. with a maximum delay of 6 hours.
  The measurement stations should at least include
  rural stations at neighbour distances less than
  200 km.
• In addition to ozone, but with a smaller
  priority, real-time measurement data should be
  available for other air pollutants of relevance
  for the photochemical mechanism, viz. CO, NOx and
  a few VOC compounds.

Measurement data
Now to be added Aerosols, PM
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Working Group on Environment
European Environment Agency

• Recommendations
• Regularly updated quality-assured air pollution
  emission inventories should be made available to
  the forecast models. These inventories should
  involve both anthropogenic and biogenic
  emissions, and should cover Europe including East
  Europe.
• Forecasting models should be evaluated using
  harmonised procedures.
• Methods suitable for assimilation of air
  pollution measurement data in forecast models
  should be developed.

Modelling
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Working Group on Environment
European Environment Agency

• Recommendations
• A list of web sites, at which ground-level ozone
  forecasts for European areas are presented in
  real time, will be made available from EUMETNETs
  home page (http//eumetnet.eu.org), and possibly
  also from EEAs home page (http//www.eea.eu.int).
  

Presentation
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European Environment Agency
Exchange of measurements
from http//ozone.eionet.eu.int
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Workshop onReal time air pollution data exchange
and forecast in Europe
Working Group on Environment
European Environment Agency
Web-sites with forecasts
EUMETNET (see above, needs to be updated) or
more comprehensive Bernd Krügers Link List
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European Environment Agency
EFNet
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Workshop onReal time air pollution data exchange
and forecast in Europe
Working Group on Environment
European Environment Agency
The first step Analysis The quality of the
air has not significantly improved during the
past years.
During the hot summer 2003 the threshold values
for ozone were exceeded very often and may have
contributed to a number of deaths
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Working Group on Environment
European Environment Agency
Additional to ozone particulate matter (PM) has
become an even more sincere problem
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Working Group on Environment
European Environment Agency

• The situation has not changed very much since
  2000.
• There are many different models and measurements.
• But
• The distribution of the results and the
  information of the population is insufficient.
• Only few measurement data are internationally
  exchanged.
• Because of the lack of an operational data
  exchange the verification of forecasts and the
  development of initial fields is inhibited.
• Because of the lack of an international exchange
  of models results and measurement data the
  improvement of models is impeded.

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MODELS and FORECASTS from various
institutions NEAs NMHSs Research
institutes models of different type Eulerian
Lagrangian Statistical for different
scales from European to urban
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European Environment Agency
Recommendations of the Langen Workshop on Data
Exchange Data availability (real time, max delay
of 6 hours) 1. O3 2. Second priority CO, NOx, VOC
(a few) vertical profiles meteorological
parameter (wind, T, radiation, H2O at same
location) non urban / typical distance 200
km known quality quality controlled standard
formats and retrieval protocols (perhaps not
central storage)
Now to be added Aerosols, PM
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Working Group on Environment
European Environment Agency

• Basic idea of EFNet
• to collect environmental forecasts and
  measurements
• and to make them available to
• the public
• National Environmental Agencies (NEAs)
• National Meteorological Services (NMSs)
• Health Institutions
• Research Institutes

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European Environment Agency
Environmental forecasts and measurement
data Potential providers and/or partners of a
network
GEMS
Health Institutions
NEAs
NMSs
Research Institutes
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European Environment Agency
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European Environment Agency

• Products of the EFNet could be
• Forecast fields and point values using predefined
  abatement scenarios in order to show the
  would-be influence of these standard emission
  reduction scenarios
• Results from statistically corrected forecasts
  (urban and rural areas) and statistical models
• A web-site for the public, for users and for the
  research community.

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Presentation
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European Environment Agency
Time-series
Interpolated European maps
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SMHI
Ozonoville sur Nox verification
forecast day-2
day-1 today tomorrow

MOCAGE
EURAD
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DMI
?Measurements
Move the cursor to get the forecast for different
places
Click on the map you want to see
Public
Internal - password protected
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• Work packages
• Management and external relations
• Website, visualisation and distribution
• Model Forecasts
• Monitoring data and data bases
• Performance analysis and feasibility studies
  (SystemDevelopment)
• User needs
• Training aspects
• Synthesis and preparation for the transition to
  operationality

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Data flow
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From D. Rogers (2004) A Vision for Numerical
Weather Prediction in Europe
Global Interactive Forecasting System
0 14 day 20 km ocean coupled resolution, 50 km
ensemble Independently formulated
Global Forecasting Centres
0 3 day 4 km resolution, 10 km
ensemble Independently formulated
European Regional Centres
Targeting Observations Coordination Centre
Potential for Subregional ensembles
Dissemination of warnings and forecasts to
government and the general public
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What is our vision and how to reach it?