The primary goal of the joint project was to develop an air quality forecast service for Ireland, with special emphasis on the model validation. This was done by using the EURAD (European Air Quality Dispersion) air quality prediction model system at the Rhenish Institute for Environmental Research (RIU) in a modified version. A major goal of this project was to carry out an intensive verification of the model forecast using observational data from the Irish air quality monitoring network. To improve the model performance, data assimilation techniques were applied, and a detailed model output statistics (MOS) system was developed. The project started on 1 December 2004 and it ended on 30 November 2007.
Initially, an adequate emission module was implemented for the selected domains using data
provided by Ireland to the European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (EMEP). With these emission
databases as input, the near-real-time forecast started on 7 April 2005. Later, a recalculation of the forecasts starting on 1 January 2005 was performed in order to complete the whole cycle for 2005. A complete analysis of 2005 and 2006 was carried out and published in technical reports provided for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Ireland. An intensive verification procedure was carried out for 2006 comparing measured data (ozone (O3), nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and particulate matter £10 μm (PM10)) from the Irish air quality observational network with predicted concentrations. Specific model output statistics were developed in order to increase the reliability of the model output concentrations.

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SAFER-Data Display URL	https://eparesearch.epa.ie/safer/iso19115/display?isoID=88
Resource Keywords	Air Quality Statistics AQUIRE EURAD EMEP emissions
EPA/ERTDI/STRIVE Project Code	2004-CoE-AQM-M4
EPA/ERTDI/STRIVE Project Theme	Air Quality
Resource Availability:	Public-Open
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Number of Attached Files (Publicly and Openly Available for Download):	34
Project Start Date	Wednesday 1st December 2004 (01-12-2004)
Earliest Recorded Date within any attached datasets or digital objects	Wednesday 1st December 2004 (01-12-2004)
Most Recent Recorded Date within any attached datasets or digital objects	Friday 30th November 2007 (30-11-2007)
Published on SAFER	Monday 15th September 2008 (15-09-2008)
Date of Last Edit	Wednesday 15th October 2008 at 11:01:47 (15-10-2008)
Datasets or Files Updated On	Wednesday 15th October 2008 at 11:01:47 (15-10-2008)

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Description of Geographical Characteristics of This Project or Dataset
Every day an extensive amount of data is produced by the EURAD forecast system for Europe, Central Europe and the German State of Northrhine?Westfalia. This includes the meteorological prediction variables and the concentrations of the atmospheric constituents at all model levels. For Ireland?s air quality forecast, the default operational model configuration was changed in order to focus on the domain that covers Ireland for the second nested domain with 5 km horizontal resolution. Therefore, the RIU standard configuration was modified in such a way that the first nested domain (D02, 25 km horizontal grid size) covers the region of the UK and Ireland, with an integrated domain of Ireland (Domain D03).

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The following is a list of projects, datasets, and resources on SAFER-Data from which users downloaded attachments from soon after downloading attachments from this resource AQUIRE: Air Quality Forecast and Statistics over Ireland. You can view the full description for projects, datasets, and resources by using the links supplied.

• EPA Ireland Archive of Nitrogen Oxides Monitoring Data View Full Metadata Description
• EPA Ireland Archive of Ozone Monitoring Data View Full Metadata Description
• Environmental Accounts for the Republic of Ireland: 1990-2005 View Full Metadata Description
• EPA Ireland Archive of Sulphur Dioxide (SO2) Monitoring Data View Full Metadata Description
• New Transboundary Air Pollution Monitoring Capacity for Ireland View Full Metadata Description

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