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Both, the current level of air pollution studies and social needs in the country, are in a stage mature enough for creating Bulgarian Chemical Weather Forecasting and Information System. The system is foreseen to provide in real time forecast of the spatial/temporal Air Quality behaviour for the country and (with higher resolution) for selected sub-regions and cities on the base of the weather forecast and national emission inventory.
The country-scale part of the system is designed. It is based on the US EPA Models-3 System. The meteorological input is the ALADIN output, ALADIN being the national numerical weather forecast tool. The boundary conditions are prepared by a similar system running operationally in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (AUTH). Special interface is created to retrieve in real time the AUTH-system forecasts producing boundary files uploaded to dedicated server in Bulgaria.
In the paper, detailed description of the System will be given together with first results of its testing.
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Syrakov, D. et al. (2010). Background Pollution Forecast over Bulgaria. In: Lirkov, I., Margenov, S., Waśniewski, J. (eds) Large-Scale Scientific Computing. LSSC 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5910. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12535-5_63
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