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Results from System of Air Quality Forecasting And Research for Commonwealth Games-2010 Delhi CWG-2010 Gufran Beig 1 , S.K. Sahu 1 , G. Carmichael 2 , S. N. Spak 2 , S. Reka 1 , S. Kulkarni 1 , S. D. Ghude 1 , K. Ali 1 , L. Jalkanen 3 1 Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India 2 CGRES, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA 3 GURME, World Meteorological Organization, Geneva,

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Results from System of Air Quality Forecasting And Research for

Commonwealth Games-2010 Delhi

CWG-2010

Gufran Beig1, S.K. Sahu1, G. Carmichael2, S. N. Spak2, S. Reka1, S. Kulkarni1, S. D. Ghude1, K. Ali1, L. Jalkanen3

1 Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India2 CGRES, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA

3 GURME, World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

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S YSTEM OF

A IR QUALITY

F ORECASTING

A ND

R ESEARCH

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What is SAFAR ? (System of Air Quality Forecasting & Research)

FORECASTING AIR QUALITY OF TOMORROW

• Understand the Air • Reach to Public

• Translate Data to Useful Information HOW- Develop Simple ways, Symbolic Talk

• Issue Advisories & Alerts;HOW- Advise on Health

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Emission Campaign Summary

An extensive campaign for 1 yr launched with 2 day orientation workshop to generate unavailable emission activity data and to update existing data required as key for AQ forecasting for Delhi.

Participation: Scientists from institutes along with 240 local students from colleges and students.

Campaign completed. GIS based model applied.

Emissions inventory of NOx, CO, VOCs, PM10, PM2.5, BC, OC for NCR Delhi with 1.5 x1.5 km resolution

developed and Scientific report prepared..

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