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The European Chemical Weather Forecasting Portal (ECWFP) has been developed within the COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) ES0602 action, “Towards a European Network on Chemical Weather Forecasting and Information Systems”. The portal provides access to the predictions of a substantial number of chemical weather forecasting systems and may be used to find out which services are available for specific (1) areas, (2) time periods and (3) pollutants. The portal serves as a “one stop shop” of chemical weather modeling services and associated information, and is currently expanding its functionalities to allow for a harmonized presentation and inter-comparison of the various available forecasts, as well as for the computation of model ensemble predictions.
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This paper has been part of the action COST ES0602 and the EU funded projects MEGAPOLI and TRANSPHORM. The authors wish to thank the whole COST ES0602 consortium, and especially those partners, who have submitted CWF systems to the portal.
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Karatzas, K., Kukkonen, J., Bassoukos, T., Epitropou, V., Balk, T. (2011). A European Chemical Weather Forecasting Portal. In: Steyn, D., Trini Castelli, S. (eds) Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XXI. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1359-8_40
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