Recognising the importance to support the transition of scientific efforts into useful services, the Global Atmosphere Watch Programme (GAW) of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has started an initiative on Global Air quality Forecast and Information Systems (GAFIS). GAFIS aims to become a network for the development of good practices for air quality forecasting and monitoring services using diverse approaches. GAFIS will closely interact with existing GAW efforts on air pollution forecasting and dust storm prediction, and it intends to build strong links with the international health community. As a major first step, GAFIS will carry out and maintain a survey of AQ information systems and identify areas and regions with a lack of adequate AQ services. GAFIS aims to improve access to air quality observations and to encourage better quality control and meta-data provision. GAFIS will initiate coordinated evaluation activities of air quality services using a harmonized eval uation protocol. Finally, promoting operational applications of atmospheric composition feedbacks in Numerical Weather Prediction is a further objective of GAFIS.
For this GAFIS Splinter Meeting we arrange an oral teleconference session in BlueJeans:
The BlueJeans link is https://bluejeans.com/926866871
Time: Thursday, 7 May, 19:00-20:00 (Central European Summer Time).
We start the session from an overall presentation on "Global Air quality Forecast and Information Systems (GAFIS) - a new WMO - GAW initiative" (D3251 |EGU2020-20058) by Dr. Johannes Flemming, the Chair of GAFIS Steering Committee, and continue with other relevant selected presentations from Session AS5.4 and any other GAFIS related short presentations or suggestions and discussions.
Your suggestions and questions are welcome. For all practical questions, please, contact to Dr. Lu Ren: lren (at) wmo.int .
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Meeting URL: https://bluejeans.com/926866871?src=join_info
Meeting ID: 926 866 871
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See also: GAFIS and other relevant GAW documents and links:
- GAFIS website: https://community.wmo.int/activity-areas/gaw/science-for-services/gafis
- Global to Local Air Quality Forecast Inventory: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=VL6m6odGxECYJ8BEvY6NPOEUPVxZj4VPuHkwEB6oPDFUQ0c5UlhVU1o1U1BRQVpCUUZDVUk1VllNQy4u
- WMO Coronavirus (COVID-19): https://public.wmo.int/en/resources/coronavirus-covid-19
- GAW | COVID studies: https://community.wmo.int/news/gaw-covid-studies
- GAW | COVID & atmospheric composition survey studies: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=VL6m6odGxECYJ8BEvY6NPBWBi5dqtPdJrNRRyGIvHdJUMkw5TTVRTDNXUk5TMU5GUkQ1UENOVjNTNi4u
- Considering the area of low-cost measurements is fast evolving and there are examples of the successful implementation of this technology in WMO Member countries, We encourage you to share your experiences covering the period 2018-2019 on the dedicated forum at https://wmoairsensor.discussion.community/
- Low-cost sensors for the measurement of atmospheric composition: overview of topic and future applications: https://library.wmo.int/doc_num.php?explnum_id=9881