Advances in Science and Research www.adv-sci-res.net 1992-0628 1992-0636 3 8th EMS Annual Meeting and 7th European Conference on Applied Climatology 2008 2009 10.5194/asr-3-27-2009 http://www.adv-sci-res.net/3/27/2009/ http://www.adv-sci-res.net/3/27/2009/asr-3-27-2009.html http://www.adv-sci-res.net/3/27/2009/asr-3-27-2009.pdf 27 33 2009-04-07 COST ES0602: towards a European network on chemical weather forecasting and information systems J. Kukkonen jaakko.kukkonen@fmi.fi T. Klein K. Karatzas K. Torseth A. Fahre Vik R. San José T. Balk M. Sofiev Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping, Sweden Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Kjeller, Norway Computer Science School, Technical University of Madrid (UPM), Spain The COST ES0602 action provides a forum for benchmarking approaches and practices in data exchange and multi-model capabilities for chemical weather forecasting and near real-time information services in Europe. The action includes approximately 30 participants from 19 countries, and its duration is from 2007 to 2011 (<a href="http://www.chemicalweather.eu/" target="_blank">http://www.chemicalweather.eu/</a>). Major efforts have been dedicated in other actions and projects to the development of infrastructures for data flow. We have therefore aimed for collaboration with ongoing actions towards developing near real-time exchange of input data for air quality forecasting. We have collected information on the operational air quality forecasting models on a regional and continental scale in a structured form, and inter-compared and evaluated the physical and chemical structure of these models. We have also constructed a European chemical weather forecasting portal that includes links to most of the available chemical weather forecasting systems in Europe. The collaboration also includes the examination of the case studies that have been organized within COST-728, in order to inter-compare and evaluate the models against experimental data. We have also constructed an operational model forecasting ensemble. Data from a representative set of regional background stations have been selected, and the operational forecasts for this set of sites will be inter-compared and evaluated. 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