The Investment Case for Improved Ambient Air Quality and Health in Ghana presents new evidence on the health and economic impacts of ambient air pollution, demonstrating why cleaner air is essential for improving public health, strengthening economic resilience and advancing sustainable development. Developed by UNDP with support from Breathe Cities, the report provides an evidence base to inform ...

Data assimilation has been successfully used for meteorology for many years and is now used more and more for atmospheric composition issues (air quality analysis and forecast). The data assimilation of pollutants remains difficult and its deployment is currently in progress. It is thus difficult to have quantitative knowledge of what we can expect as the maximum benefit. In this study we propose ...

Air quality in South Asia poses a major threat to human health and requires transboundary cooperation to address. Earth observations (EOs) can play a critical role in air quality monitoring and operations but require training to enable their effective integration. This article describes the outcome of a training in Kathmandu, Nepal, organized by the SERVIR Hindu Kush Himalaya program, on Earth obs...

A new dynamical core, known as the Finite Volume Cubed-Sphere (FV3) and developed at both NASA and NOAA, is used in NOAA’s Global Forecast System (GFS) and in limited-area models for regional weather and air quality applications. NOAA has also upgraded the operational FV3GFS to version 16 (GFSv16), which includes a number of significant developmental advances to the model configuration, data assim...

The combination of air quality (AQ) data from satellites and low-cost sensor systems, along with output from AQ models, have the potential to augment high-quality, regulatory-grade data in countries with in situ monitoring networks and provide much needed AQ information in countries without them, including Low and Moderate Income Countries (LMICs). We demonstrate the potential of free and publicly...

The purpose of this standard operating procedure (SOP) is to explain how to prepare comprehensive project specific air quality statements for inclusion in the project file or environmental review document. This SOP affects projects that are developed by or for review by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) Environmental Affairs Division (ENV) for roadway/highway projects, including Feder...

The Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) Modeling System is EPA’s premier modeling system for studying air pollution from global to local scales. For nearly a quarter century, EPA and states have used CMAQ—a powerful computational tool for translating fundamental atmospheric science principles to policy scenarios—to support air quality management. CMAQ is continually updated to incorporate new ...

The importance of and interest to research and investigations of atmospheric composition and its modeling for different applications are substantially increased. Air quality forecast (AQF) and assessment systems help decision makers to improve air quality and public health, mitigate the occurrence of acute air pollution episodes, particularly in urban areas, and reduce the associated impacts on ag...

The producers of this document have implemented an Air Quality Early Warning System to predict extreme air pollution events and give alerts to take necessary steps as per Graded Response Action Plan of the Government of India. The high-level objective of this system is to enable and provide air quality forecasting and information services in a globally harmonized and standardized way tailored to t...

The September and October 2000 meetings of the Air Quality Research Subcommittee of the Committee on the Environment and Natural Resources (CENR) focused on a discussion of federal programs related to air quality forecasting.  This report provides a brief summary of the current state of science as discussed at these meetings, with some additional material that was not presented at the meeting...