Ministry of Earth Sciences has recently improved the Air Quality forecast model ‘System for Integrated modelling of Atmospheric composition (SILAM) for India by implementing global emission inventories CAMS-GLOB v2.1 supplemented with EDGAR v4.3.2 for coarse and mineral-fine anthropogenic particulate matter at 10km resolution.
ENFUSER
- A very high resolution city scale model ENFUSER (ENvironmental information FUsion SERvice) for Delhi also has been operationalized to identify the air pollution hotspots and pollution upto street level.
- SILAM and ENFUSER have been developed in technical collaboration with Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI).
- The specialty of the ENFUSER is the high utilization of measurement data such as air quality observations, a detailed description of the road network, buildings, land-use information, high resolution satellite images, ground elevation and population data.
- The ENFUSER natively taps into the operative IMD’s regional SILAM access point. The ENFUSER results are being evaluated with the satellite measurements and observations, model is found to capture the hotspots over Delhi very well.
- The SILAM models have been extensively validated against observations over Indian region.
(Source: PIB)
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