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Caliope: an operational air quality forecasting system for the Iberian Peninsula, Balearic Islands and Canary Islands – first annual evaluation and ongoing developments
1Earth Sciences Department, Barcelona Supercomputing Center – Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS), Barcelona, Spain
2Environmental Modelling Laboratory, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain
3Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
4Instituto de Ciencias de la Tierra "Jaume Almera" (CSIC-IJA), Barcelona, Spain
5Fundación Centro de Estudios Ambientales del Mediterráneo (CEAM), Paterna, Spain
Abstract. The Caliope project funded by the Spanish Ministry of the Environment establishes an air quality forecasting system for Spain to increase the knowledge on transport and dynamics of pollutants in Spain, to assure the accomplishment of legislation and to inform the population about the levels of pollutants, topics in which the European Commission has shown a great concern. The present contribution describes the first quantitative verification study performed so far with two chemistry transport models (CMAQ and CHIMERE) for a reference year (2004) at medium spatial resolution (around 20×20 km for the Iberian Peninsula). Both models perform similarly in the case of ground-level ozone. The mean normalised gross error MNGE remains below 15–20% during summertime, when ozone episodes occur, outlining the good skills of the system concerning the forecasting of air quality in Spain. Furthermore, the ongoing developments of the system towards high resolution modelling (4×4 km for Spain, 12×12 km for Europe, 1 h temporal resolution) and the integration with observations within the Caliope umbrella are described.
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Citation: Baldasano, J. M., Jiménez-Guerrero, P., Jorba, O., Pérez, C., López, E., Güereca, P., Martín, F., Vivanco, M. G., Palomino, I., Querol, X., Pandolfi, M., Sanz, M. J., and Diéguez, J. J.: Caliope: an operational air quality forecasting system for the Iberian Peninsula, Balearic Islands and Canary Islands – first annual evaluation and ongoing developments, Adv. Sci. Res., 2, 89-98, doi:10.5194/asr-2-89-2008, 2008. Bibtex EndNote Reference Manager XML
