Development of air quality assessment models
OSCAR Air Quality Assessment System (funded by European Commission, FP5) was developed in close cooperation with city authority users from London, Oslo, Helsinki and Athens. The architecture of the system has been designed to incorporate a number of models and modules on air quality, emissions, meteorology as well as databases of traffic characteristics and emissions. A software framework for integrating these datasets, models, modules and tools in a logical and interactive fashion allows the users to easily navigate and undertake their analysis.
How the OSCAR system works
Selected References
Ranjeet S Sokhi, Hongjun Mao, Srinivas T G Srimath, Shiyuan Fan, Nutthida Kitwiroon, Lakhumal Luhana, Jaakko Kukkonen, Mervi Haakana, K Dick van den Hout, Paul Boulter, Ian S McCrae, Steinar Larssen, Karl I Gjerstad, Roberto San Jose, John Bartzis, Panos Neofytou, Peter van den Breemer, Steve Neville, Anu Kousa, Blanca M Cortes and Ingrid Myrtveit (2008)
An Integrated Multi-Model Approach for Air Quality Assessment: Development and Evaluation of the Oscar Air Quality Assessment System Environmental Modelling and Software 23, 261-281.
Acknowledgements
This work was funded by the European Commission. BADC and DEFRA are thanked for providing access to meteorological and air quality data respectively.