[ESIP-AQ] Fwd: need information, please

[Christopher Lynnes]

Thought this might be of interset to the AQ cluster...

Begin forwarded message:

> From: claudio cortes <ccortes at CENMA.CL>
> Date: September 14, 2009 10:40:07 AM EDT
> To: "GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT" <GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT>
> Subject: need information, please
> Reply-To: "GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT" <GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT>
>
> Hi GraDS Users (and sorry for the semi-off topic)
>
> I'm meteorologist of the National Environment Center, Chile. In the
> principal city of Chile (Santiago) and in another cities of the
> country, the PM10 problem in winter and Tropospheric Ozone in Summer
> is critical. Therefore, in winter, the goverment takes actions to
> control the emissions and protect the people against the PM10,
> depending of the meteorological and PM10 forecast made by us.
> Now, we are in campaign of update our forecast system, and my work is
> find another institutions who works with PM10 and Ozone forecast
> systems and know how works, tools used, work way, monitoring systems,
> models used and his accuracy. So, I need your help, if any of you
> works in some institution dedicated to the forecast of particulate
> matter and ozone, please answer me the next questions (and send me
> additional info if you want)
>
> 1.- Institution name (organization, who depends, financing, etc.)
> 2.- Country
> 3.- Forecast zone (extension and number of monitoring stations)
> 4.- Number of people working in the forecast
> 5.- Official way to measure the air quality in your zone (pm10:
> average of next 0 to 23 hours of tomorrow, pm10: max movable average
> of 24 hours for tomorrow, pm10: average of 6AM of tomorrow to 6AM of
> past tomorow, etc... and ozone)
> 6.- Models used (linear regression, mos, neural networks,
> physics-chemical models, etc.) and his accuracy (what model is
> recommended by you?)
> 7.- Other institutions involved in the forecast and his role in this  
> work
> 8.- The local goverment takes actions before critical events of
> pollution ? (what kind of actions?)
> 9.- Long-term actions in your zone to reduce the pollution.
> 10.- Cost of implement your forecast system in another place (eg,
> another country), including monitoring stations, equiments, etc.
>
> The end of this study is recommend to the goverment improvements to
> our forecast system (governed by law), improvements who involving
> better accuracy and, therefore, more efficient protection to the
> people.
>
> This info will be helpful for my study, and if you have any
> complementary information just send me. I will share the results of
> this study with the list.
> Thank you very much GrADS Users !.
>
> --
> Claudio Cortes
> +56 (2) 2994121
>
> Meteorologo
> Laboratorio de Meteorologia y Calidad de Aire
> Centro Nacional del Medio Ambiente (CENMA)
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Claudio Cortes
> +56 (2) 2994121
>
> Meteorologist
> Meteorology and Air Quality Labs
> National Enviroment Center, Chile (CENMA)

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Christopher Lynnes             NASA/GSFC, Code 610.2          
301-614-5185