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An Integrated Weather and Sea State Forecasting System for the Arabian Peninsula (WASSF)

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Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XXIII

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Saudi Aramco is the oil industry of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with several activities related to the environment. In order to optimize daily operations and minimize environmental risks a forecasting system has been employed and setup in operations. The objectives of the system include prevention and mitigation of environmental problems, as well as early warning of local conditions associated with extreme weather events. The management and operations part is related to early warning of weather and dust storms that affect operations of various facilities, whereas the environmental part is mainly focused on air quality and desert dust levels in the atmosphere.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the Environmental Protection Department of Saudi Aramco.

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  1. Environmental Protection Department, Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

    Jumaan Al Qahtani, Elyas Alaa, Daniel W. Beard & Ioannis Alexiou

  2. Faculty of Physics, Atmospheric Modeling and Weather Forecasting Group, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    George Kallos, George Galanis, Christina Mitsakou, Chris Spyrou, Christina Kalogeri, Nikolaos Bartsotas, John Athanaselis & Stavros Solomos

  3. Faculty of Physics, Ocean Physics and Modeling Group, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Sarantis Sofianos, Vassilios Vervatis & Panagiotis Axaopoulos

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  1. Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Douw Steyn

  2. Atmospheric Modeling and Analysis Div., United States Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA

    Rohit Mathur

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Qahtani, J.A. et al. (2014). An Integrated Weather and Sea State Forecasting System for the Arabian Peninsula (WASSF). In: Steyn, D., Mathur, R. (eds) Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XXIII. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04379-1_28

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