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Grid computing for atmospheric composition studies in Bulgaria

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Three Grid applications from the SEE-GRID-SCI Environmental VO are developed by the Bulgarian project team: Climate Change Impact on Air Quality (CCIAQ); Multi-scale atmospheric composition modeling (MSACM); Modeling System for Emergency Response to the Release of Harmful Substances in the Atmosphere (MSERRHSA). The three applications concern problems of significant socio-economic significance. They are all dedicated to air pollution studies, but address different goals and so face different problems and requirements. The applications are briefly presented in the paper. Examples of the different applications validations are given. Some application results are shown and commented.

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Acknowledgments

This study is made under the financial support of European Commission—6thFP Integrated Project CECILIA, FP7 project SEE-GRID-SCI (Contract No. RI-211338), as well as to the Bulgarian National Science Fund (grants № Д002-161/2008 and Д002-115/2008). The presented results would not be possible without the experience obtained during the participation in the 5thFP project BULAIR (Contract No. EVK2-CT-2002-80024), the 6thFP Network of Excellence ACCENT (Contract No. GOCE-CT-2002-500337) and the 6thFP Integrated Project QUANTIFY (Contract No. GOGE-003893). The contacts within the framework of the NATO SfP Project No. 981382 “Modeling System for Emergency Response to the Release of Harmful Substances in the Atmosphere” were extremely simulating as well.

Deep gratitude is due to all organizations providing free of charge data and software used in this study, namely US EPA, US NCEP and European institutions like EMEP, EEA, UBA and many others. Special thanks to the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific research (TNO) for providing us with the high-resolution European anthropogenic emission inventory. Without these open source data bases and software provided by these organizations this study would not be possible.

Finally, gratitude is due to Prof. E. Donev, Faculty of Physics of Sofia University, for providing us with Bulgarian ozone measurement data. One of the authors of this study, namely G. Gadjhev, is World Federation of Scientists’ grant holder.

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  1. Geophysical Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. G. Bonchev Str., Bl.3, Sofia, 1113, Bulgaria

    Angelina Todorova, Georgi Gadjhev, Georgi Georgiev, Kostadin G. Ganev & Nikolai Miloshev

  2. National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 66 Tzarigradsko Chausee, Sofia, 1784, Bulgaria

    Dimiter Syrakov, Maria Prodanova, Valery Spiridonov, Andrej Bogatchev & Kiril Slavov

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Todorova, A., Syrakov, D., Gadjhev, G. et al. Grid computing for atmospheric composition studies in Bulgaria. Earth Sci Inform 3, 259–282 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12145-010-0072-1

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