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European air quality maps of ozone and PM10 for 2006 and their uncertainty analysis
ETC/ACC Technical Paper 2008/8
Released: 2009/04/09: See the report
Abstract
The objective of this paper is the updating of European air quality concentration maps, their exceedance probability and population exposure estimates based on interpolation of annual statistics of the 2006 observational data reported by EEA Member countries in 2007. The paper presents the mapping results and includes an uncertainty analysis of the interpolated maps, building upon methodological developments of earlier reports from Horálek et al. (2007, 2008).
The products of this work are mainly intended to be used for the assessment of European air quality by the EEA and its ETC/ACC, and for (interactive visual) public information purposes through the EEA website. The two main pollutants of interest, PM10 and ozone, have been considered as relevant for an annual update and are dealt with in this paper.
Prepared by: ETC/ACC members Peter de Smet1, Jan Horálek2, Markéta Coňková2,Pavel Kurfürst2, Frank de Leeuw1, Bruce Denby3
1Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), Bilthoven, Netherlands,
2Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (CHMI), Praha, Czech Republic
3Norwegian Institute of Air Research (NILU), Oslo, Norway
Published by: ETC/ACC, April 2009, 52 pp.
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