ATMOSYS is a suite of air quality management software tools and web apps created specifically to support the implementation of air quality legislation and policies at a regional and urban scale. It comprises of cost efficient user friendly tools for predicting air quality episodes , mapping air quality at a high spatial resolution and supporting decisions on where, when and how actions should be taken to improve air quality (planning).
ATMOSYS Planning
ATMOSYS Planning is a user friendly web based decision support tool, designed to facilitate the assessment of the impact of emission reduction scenarios on air quality on an urban scale at a high spatial resolution. ATMOSYS Planning can be implemented in a regional or local administration:
- To support the implementation of air quality actions plans,
- As a standard tool to harmonise air quality impact assessments required for environmental permits.
The main characteristics are:
- Allows the evaluation of changes in road transport and industrial emissions.
- The user does not require extensive modelling expertise to use the software.
- The key inputs required is local scale emission data.
- The software includes the latest regional meteo and background concentration data supplied by CAMS and ECMWF.
- The software can be tailored for specific assessment processes e.g. environmental permit processes and/or Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA)
- Default data and emission mitigation options can be ‘predefined’ into the configuration.
- Offers significant operational and administrative cost savings.
QUARK
QUARK (Quick Urban AiR quality using Kernels) is a modelling approach developed for the fast calculation of urban air quality assessments at a high spatial resolution. Suitable for source apportionment studies and performing emission reduction scenarios on an EU scale at a high spatial resolution.
- Allows the evaluation of road transport related sources.
- Can be tailored for other source sector contributions.
- The methodology was recently refined within a service contract for the European Commission, where the aim was to come up with improved tools for EU-wide NO2 exposure assessment.