Environmental Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
3. Test Application Examples
Within the international EUREKA E!3266 WEBAIR development project
(http://www.ess.co.at/WEBAIR), several parallel test cases are used to develop and
validate the system. They include:
the Island Republic of Cyprus and
a several urban scale case studies
including Limassol. Cyprus has
comparatively low emissions, but
complex meteorology due to its
island nature; the Korean peninsula,
with a central case study of Seoul
metropolitan area and the surroun-
ding heavily industrialized pro-
vince Gyeonggi-do; the Greater
Tehran Area around the capital
city of Iran, a case that is dominated
by traffic sources; the industrial
city of Sisak in Croatia; and selec-
ted industrial development zones
along the Arabian Gulf, United
Arab Emirates. Experiments with
real-time data assimilation are just
starting, but the comparison with
historical data shows very good
correspondence of model results
with observational data for both
meteorological and photochemical
air quality model results.
The on-line pilot systems and
operational forecasts are accessible
from http://www.ess.co.at/DEMOS#air, and the WEBAIR and AirWare project
sites: http://www.ess.co.at/WEBAIR and http://www.ess.co.at/AIRWARE
4. Questions and Answers
Peter Builtjes:
Did you consider improving your air quality forecasting by
improving - trying - the emission “forecasting” ?
Kurt Fedra
: Yes, we try to tune both the temporal patterns used (analyzing the
residuals) as well as for individual monitoring stations where the wind-direction
dependent contributions can be well identified (apportionment) by adjusting
sectoral emission scaling factors if the bias is “consistent”.
