Fonds européen dedéveloppement régional

(FEDER)

Common platform for air quality assessment and information in the Upper

Rhine Valley

Plate-forme commune d’évaluation

et d’information sur la qualité de l’air

dans la vallée du Rhin Supérieur

INTERREG III (2001 – 2005)

Part I : Common air quality information system

Part II : Common emission inventory

Part III : Common modelisation platform

Daily air quality indexes

Daily and annual maps on air quality

Air quality index daily forecast

Regional primary data

Design of several emission software tools

Elaboration of emission reduction scenarii

Other studies : speciation of PM and NMVOC

Measurement campaign

Design of a common modelisation platform

Validation of the models with IOPs

Common daily forecast with the platform

Scenarii studies with the platform

A common air quality assessment and information system in the Upper Rhine Valley

Part 1 : common information system

Bilingual website presenting daily

data of german, french and swiss air

quality networks in the Upper Rhine

Region

Interpolated map of NO2 concentrations –

2005 March 16 12:00

Map of air quality indexes – 2005 March 11 09:00

http://www.umeg.de/messwerte/ir3web/

Part 2 : common emission inventory

Development of tools to update the emissions on

the scale of the Upper Rhine

Database

EMISS’AIR

Hourly kilometric

land register

Primary data

Transborder inventory

Development of a tool to integrate the

emissions data into a common database

Development of a tool to distribute the

emissions per km2, per hour and per specie

German and Swiss inventories

Collecting data

CONIF’AIR, CIRCUL’AIR

ManagAir

The CONIF’AIR and CIRCUL’AIR tools

Cartographyspecies

settlement

Land Use

Land

registered

Emissions

Weather

Emission factors

biomass Database

CONIF’AIR : Biogenic Emissions

CIRCUL’AIR : Road transport Emissions

Cars Counting

Linear

Emissions

Roads characteristics

Emission cadaster : the ManagAir tool

Temporal distribution

Emission cadaster

Ponctual sources

Linear sources

Surfacic sources NMVOC and

PM speciation from CITEPA et IER (2004)

Land use

-gas-aerosol

Part 3 : common modelisation platform

Chemical modelisation :

4 square kilometerResolution grid

Chemical boundary

conditions :

Meteorological modelisation :

MM5

12x12 and 4x4 kilometer

resolution grids

Meteorological boundary

conditions : NCEP

Measuring campaign : May - June 2003

Data Exploitation

Data Exploitation

FTPFTP

Modelisation of IOPs

Collect and analysis of IOPs data

3 Juin 2003FVM + TAPOM (max) MM5 + CHIMERE (16h)

Simulation of IOPs with :

- METPHOMOD,

- FVM+TAPOM,

- MM5+CHIMERE

Cooperation with the EPFL and with ACRI-ST

IOP 1 : 3rd to 5th june 2003

IOP 2 : 10th to 12th june 2003

Air quality forecast with the platform

Scenarii study with the platform

2000 Base : Reference scenario based on the transboundary emission inventory of 2000

2000 Urg : Application of Emergency Measures listed in the Circular of the 18th june 2004 2020 Fil : « Fil de l’eau » long term scenario 2020 Env : Environmental long term scenario

1 Definition of

measures included

in the different

scenarii

2 Assessment of

the impact of

measures on

emissions

3 Integration of

emission in the

CHIMERE-ACRI

platform

4 Running the

CHIMERE-ACRI

model

5 Interpretation of

results, analysis of

measure’s

efficiency

EmissionsModelisation

Scenario « 2000 Urg » : variation of VOC emissions

Reference scenario :anthropic VOCs

ManagAir

CHIMERE as boundary for ADMS urban

Emission cadaster

Boundary conditions Here : 200 m x 200 m resolution

Virtual

stations

Measur

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FORECAST

Fonds européen dedéveloppement régional

(FEDER)

www.atmo-alsace.net

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