POLLUMET

Air Pollution and Meteorology in Switzerland
Luftverunreinigung und Meteorologie in der Schweiz


Completed


Type of Structure: program
Regional Scope: national in the area: Switzerland / Europe
Parent Organisations: SNF, BUWAL,
Child Organisations:
Duration : 1988 to 1995 COMPLETED
Contact Address: no office contact defined


General information and objectives

POLLUMET is a coordinated research program initiated in to study in an interdisciplinary way pollutant emissions, movements of air masses, atmospheric chemistry and pollutant dispersion and deposition. POLLUMET focuses on the following scientific issues (POLLUMET, 1990, see below):

- data collection and modelling of pollutant distributions over Switzerland;
  • physical processes that determine the transport and diffusion of air pollutants over complex terrain;
  • chemical reactions during transport and in photochemical smog;
  • interplay of transport and photochemical processes in determining the air quality of particular regions;
  • development of models to assess policies to reduce air pollution (models of the diffusion and chemical changes of air pollutants in calculated wind fields).

    Field measurement campaigns were conducted in 1990, 1991 and 1993, and these data have now been analysed. The future of POLLUMET is uncertain, because no secure source of long-term funding has been identified. In the past, the Federal Office of Environment, Forests and Landscape financed the infrastructure needed to coordinate the individual research projects, which were funded separately by proposals to the SNF. The POLLUMET Executive Committee has developed proposals for three new projects within the POLLUMET framework: ISTOM, to analyze time-series tropospheric ozone data, in particular with regard to assessing the role of meteorological factors in determining ozone concentrations; BAT, to determine regional fluxes of trace gases; and OSSOS, to study the production photo-oxidants on the southern flank of the Alps.

    source: POLLUMET (POLLUMET Executive Committee), 1990: POLLUMET - Luftverschmutzung und Meteorologie in der Schweiz, 2. Auflage.





    Last update: 5/8/22
    Source of data: ProClim- Research InfoSystem (1993-2024)

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