Metropolitan Air Quality and Weather Forecasting Services

Objectives

  • Development of Early warning system to predict Air Quality and Weather for Indian metropolitan cities namely- “SAFAR” (System of Air quality and Weather Forecasting And Research). To investigate the role of air pollution and its impact on Human Health and Crop Yield. 
  • Development of Chemical-transport modelling capability to understand the linkages of atmospheric Chemistry with weather and climate.
  • Development of improved high-resolution gridded national emission inventories.
  • Establishment of MAPAN (Modeling Air Pollution And Networking) –A national monitoring Network for atmospheric chemical parameters. 
  • Investigating the role of carbonaceous species (black carbon, organic carbon, brown carbon, etc.).

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