LSSC 2009: Large-Scale Scientific Computing pp 531-537 | Cite as
Background Pollution Forecast over Bulgaria
Abstract
Both, the current level of air pollution studies and social needs in the country, are in a stage mature enough for creating Bulgarian Chemical Weather Forecasting and Information System. The system is foreseen to provide in real time forecast of the spatial/temporal Air Quality behaviour for the country and (with higher resolution) for selected sub-regions and cities on the base of the weather forecast and national emission inventory.
The country-scale part of the system is designed. It is based on the US EPA Models-3 System. The meteorological input is the ALADIN output, ALADIN being the national numerical weather forecast tool. The boundary conditions are prepared by a similar system running operationally in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (AUTH). Special interface is created to retrieve in real time the AUTH-system forecasts producing boundary files uploaded to dedicated server in Bulgaria.
In the paper, detailed description of the System will be given together with first results of its testing.
Keywords
Biogenic Emission National Emission Inventory Large Point Source Emission Input Emission Inventory GuidebookPreview
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