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Created by Michel Guisti

Notes:

  • add a note to clearly explain to users that regional = european
  • update links to latest CAMS-50 deliverable pdf available - pdf should be made available in ADS documentation tab
  • Dataset citation needed from CAMS-50
  • Figure showing WCS needs to be updated!! WCS is being dropped and WMS is to be made available through apps.ecmwf.int


Introduction

The regional air quality production of the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) is based on an ensemble of 9 state-of-the-art numerical air quality models developed in Europe : CHIMERE from INERIS (France), EMEP from MET Norway (Norway), EURAD-IM from Jülich IEK (Germany), LOTOS-EUROS from KNMI and TNO (Netherlands), MATCH from SMHI (Sweden), MOCAGE from METEO-FRANCE (France), SILAM from FMI (Finland), DEHM from AARHUS UNIVERSITY (Denmark), and GEM-AQ from IEP-NRI (Poland).

The regional air quality models provide 4-day, daily forecasts of the main atmospheric pollutants concentrations, in the lowest layers of the atmosphere for the European domain (east boundary=25.0° W, west=45.0° E, south=30.0° N, north=72.0°). Their horizontal coverage is 0.1° (approximatively 10 to 20 km), allowing background air pollution levels and medium-range atmospheric composition to be monitored and forecasted. To get insight into your local area, please liaise with your national or local air quality agency.

Alongside forecasts, the models perform daily analyses of pollutants near the surface by assimilating, i.e merging, 1-day old observations with the models. For this purpose, each system of the ensemble rely on their own data assimilation system. Surface observations are split into two sets used in the data assimilation process and for statistical assessments of forecasts and analyses. They are collected on a daily basis from the European Environmental Agency (EEA), and more precisely from its near-real-time (NRT) service for air quality measurements over Europe.

The forecasts and analyses from all partner models are combined in calculating the median value of the individual outputs, which currently gives the best estimate from the ensemble. In that case the median value is designated as the ENSEMBLE output.

Beside this near-real time production, validated and interim reanalyses of previous years are produced with the same ensemble of different models. Reanalyses products provide a revised version of the analyses using more observations, a reanalysis weather modeling and much better quality control (thus the term re-analyses). 

Please note that access to the numerical data produced by the production chains of the individual models and the ENSEMBLE output is subject to your prior acceptance of the Licence agreement and registration (read more here for licence and here for registration).

Air quality models and data assimilation system

The nine air quality models use the meteorological parameters settings coming from the 00:00 UTC operational ECMWF IFS forecast from the day before, the boundary conditions for chemical species coming from the CAMS IFS-TM5 global production, the emissions coming from CAMS emission (for anthropic emissions over Europe and for biomass burning). The domain covers the European area: 25W/30N/45E/72N since 12th June 2019. Before this date, the domain coverage was smaller i.e. 25W/30N/45E/70N.

Table 1: Air quality models (Source: Regional Production, Updated documentation covering all Regional operational systems and the ENSEMBLE (01-2021) document)

ModelInstitution
CHIMEREINERIS (France)
DEHMAARHUS UNIVERSITY (Denmark)
EMEPMET Norway (Norway)
EURAD-IMJülich IEK (Germany)
GEM-AQIEP-NRI (Poland)
LOTOS-EUROSKNMI and TNO (Netherlands)
MATCHSMHI (Sweden)
MOCAGEMETEO-FRANCE (France)
SILAMFMI (Finland)



Data access

Data is available for download from the CAMS Atmosphere Data Store (ADS). CAMS ADS registered users can access the available data interactively through the CAMS European air quality forecast ADS download web interface and/or programmatically using the API as per instructions detailed here.

From 1st July 2020, the access method to the European air quality Web Map Service (WMS) is through a new server at ECMWF which hosts the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service. Details are available here.

The Web Coverage Service (WCS) was shutdown on 30 June 2020. CAMS European air quality data retrieval for a specific geographical area and/or level is now served through the Atmosphere Data Store.

Data availability (HH:MM)

The CAMS European air quality forecasts is a 3-year rolling archive in the ADS for NRT product, as other/better product become available in the form of reanalyses. For traceability of research results making use of this data, we invite users to keep the files that they have downloaded and used for their research.

The production of the forecast and analysis packages take place at different times of the day : Forecast D0 (0-24h) at 05:50 UTC , D1 (25-48h) 05:55 UTC, D2 (49-72h) 07:30 UTC, D3 (73-96h) 08:00 UTC and 11:00 UTC for Analysis (-24H-1H)).

Ensemble analyses :

Data availability guaranteed by 12:00 UTC

Ensemble forecast :

0-24h forecast data availability guaranteed by 08:00 UTC

25-48h forecast data availability guaranteed by 08:00 UTC

49-72h forecast data availability guaranteed by 10:00 UTC

73-96h forecast data availability guaranteed by 10:00 UTC

It is possible that the data will be available earlier but without guarantee.

Spatial grid

Horizontal resolution of ENSEMBLE forecasts and analyses is on a 0.1°× 0.1° regular latitude-longitude grid.

The nine individual models have different native spatial grids (for details see Regional Production, Updated documentation covering all Regional operational systems and the ENSEMBLE (02-2020) document) and they are interpolated on the ensemble common regular grid for each time step of the daily forecasts.


Temporal frequency

The daily ensemble forecast, run from 00 UTC, with a Time resolution of 1 hour and Forecasts period from step 0h to step 96h.

Data format

Data are available in NetCDF format for the individual models outputs, and in NetCDF and Grib-Edition2 format for the ENSEMBLE outputs.

Care should be taken when decoding regional CAMS grib files. The page How to identify fields in European air-quality forecast grib files describes how they should be handled.

Level listings

Vertical levels: Surface, 50m, 100m, 250m, 500m, 750m, 1000m, 2000m, 3000m, 5000m

Note

Pollen data are available only at the surface.

Product listings (including pollen)

Model forecasts are not suitable for clinical trials.

The following species could be considered experimental and without assessment and to be used with caution:

  • SIA
  • PANs
  • NMVOC
  • PM10_WF
  • PM25 anthropogenic total carbon only
  • PM25 anthropogenic residential carbon only
  • NH3
  • DUST

The land-sea mask field used to produce the regional air quality data is attached here below, already interpolated to a regular lat/lon grid of 0.1°x0.1°:

name

units

land-sea mask (netCDF4)

(0-1)


Variable NameNetCDF UnitsGrib UnitsVariable name in ADSAnalysisForecastNote
Alder pollengrains m-3grains m-3

alder_pollen


×Forecast available from 1st January to 30th June (implemented in November 2020)
Ammoniaµg m-3kg m-3ammonia××
Birch pollengrains m-3grains m-3birch_pollen
×Forecast available from 1st March to 31stJuly (implemented in November 2015)
Carbon monoxideµg m-3kg m-3carbon_monoxide××
Dustµg m-3kg m-3dust××Dust is fraction in PM10
Grass pollengrains m-3grains m-3grass_pollen
×Forecast available from 1st March to 31st August (implemented in November 2016)


Mugwort pollengrains m-3grains m-3mugwort_pollen
×Forecast available from 1st June to 31st October (implemented in June 2021)
Nitrogen dioxideµg m-3kg m-3nitrogen_dioxide××
Nitrogen monoxideµg m-3kg m-3nitrogen_monoxide××
Non-methane volatile compounds (VOCs)µg m-3kg m-3non_methane_vocs××
Olive pollengrains m-3grains m-3olive_pollen
×Forecast available from 1st January to 30th June (implemented in November 2016)


Ozoneµg m-3kg m-3ozone××
Particulate matter d < 10 µm (PM10)µg m-3kg m-3particulate_matter_10um××
Particulate matter d < 10 µm, wildfires only (PM10_WF)µg m-3kg m-3

pm10_wildfires



Forecast available from March 2020
Particulate matter d < 2.5 µm (PM2.5)µg m-3kg m-3particulate_matter_2××
Particulate matter d < 2.5 µm (PM2.5), anthropogenic total carbon onlyµg m-3kg m-3pm2.5_anthropogenic_total_carbon××Forecast available from June 2021
Particulate matter d < 2.5 µm (PM2.5), anthropogenic residential carbon onlyµg m-3kg m-3pm2.5_anthropogenic_residential_carbon××Forecast available from June 2021
Peroxyacyl nitrates (PANs)µg m-3kg m-3peroxyacyl_nitrates××
Ragweed pollengrains m-3grains m-3ragweed_pollen
×Forecast available from 1st June to 31st October (implemented in June 2019).

In principle, the season starts in midsummer: the 2 main driving parameters are the temperature and the photoperiod. A minimum of daily mean temperature is required and too long photoperiod slows down the phenological development. So, the shortening of photoperiod is used in models as a threshold for the season start (end of July in Eastern and South-eastern Europe). The models will only deliver datasets from 1st July till 31st October.


Secondary inorganic aerosol (SIA)µg m-3kg m-3secondary_inorganic_aerosol××SIA is fraction in PM2.5. Data available from 12 June 2019
Sulphur dioxideµg m-3kg m-3sulphur_dioxide××

In Situ Observations

In situ observations used as input into the CAMS regional services to constrain the regional forecast models. In situ observations are also used in the evaluation and quality assurance (EQA) of all CAMS products.

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titleTable 1: In situ observations


Application in CAMSMeasured speciesNetworks
Input for regional servicesO3, NO2, SO2, CO, PM2.5, PM10, pollenEEA/EIONET
EQA of regional servicesO3, NO2, SO2, CO, PM2.5, PM10, pollenEEA/EIONET, EMEP


Validation reports

Validation Reports for the CAMS reanalysis can be found on the CAMS Quality Assurance website.

Individual and ENSEMBLE model evaluations are available at station level and aggregated by country through an interactive visualization platform for Forecast and Analysis.

Known issues

  1. Ozone CHIMERE data are not available for timestep 96 for 2019-07-07 and timesteps 69 to 96 for 2019-07-12.
  2. Data gap for EMEP forecast data on the following dates:
    • 31-03-2019
    • 12-06-2019
    • 17/18-07-2019
    • 25/26-08-2019

  3. Data gap on 22 and 23 April 2018, 

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    titleclick here for more details:

    The species available are 

    • 'carbon_monoxide',
    • 'ammonia',
    • 'non_methane_vocs',
    • 'nitrogen_dioxide',
    • 'nitrogen_monoxide',
    • 'ozone',
    • 'peroxyacyl_nitrates',
    • 'particulate_matter_10um',
    • 'particulate_matter_2.5um',
    • 'sulphur_dioxide'

    Dust and SIA was not produced yet.

    Regarding the levels:

    • For 2018/04/23, there is only ground level
    • For 2018/04/22, some models produced level from 50 to 5000 m as follow :

    		CHIMERE - MATCHLOTOSEMEPMOCAGE - SILAM
    times available[
    '02:00',
    '03:00', '04:00', '05:00',
    '06:00', '07:00', '08:00',
    '09:00', '10:00', '11:00',
    '12:00', '13:00', '14:00',
    '15:00', '16:00', '17:00',
    '18:00', '19:00', '20:00',
    '21:00', '22:00', '23:00',
    ]    		[
    '00:00', '02:00',
    '03:00', '04:00', '05:00',
    '06:00', '07:00', '08:00',
    '09:00', '10:00', '11:00',
    '12:00', '13:00', '14:00',
    '19:00', '20:00',
    '21:00', '22:00', '23:00',
    ]    		[
    '00:00', '01:00', '02:00',
    '03:00', '04:00', '05:00',
    '06:00', '07:00', '08:00',
    '09:00', '10:00', '11:00',
    '12:00', '13:00', '14:00',
    '15:00', '16:00', '17:00',
    '18:00', '19:00', '20:00',
    '21:00', '22:00', '23:00',
    ]    		[
    '08:00',
    '09:00', '10:00', '11:00',
    '12:00', '13:00', '14:00',
    '15:00', '16:00', '17:00',
    '18:00', '19:00', '20:00',
    '21:00', '22:00', '23:00',
    ]



How to acknowledge, cite and refer to the data

All users of data uploaded on the Atmosphere Data Store (ADS) must provide clear and visible attribution to the Copernicus programme and are asked to cite and reference the dataset provider.

(1) Acknowledge according to the licence to use Copernicus Products.

(2) Cite each dataset used:


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    METEO FRANCE, Institut national de l'environnement industriel et des risques (Ineris), Aarhus University, Norwegian Meteorological Institute (MET Norway), Jülich Institut für Energie- und Klimaforschung (IEK), Institute of Environmental Protection – National Research Institute (IEP-NRI), Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (KNMI), Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek (TNO), Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) and Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) (2020): CAMS European air quality forecasts, ENSEMBLE data. Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) Atmosphere Data Store (ADS).  (Accessed on <DD-MMM-YYYY>), https://ads.atmosphere.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/cams-europe-air-quality-forecasts?tab=overview


(3) Throughout the content of your publication, the dataset used is referred to as Author (YYYY) e.g. for Ensemble data:  METEO-FRANCE et. al (2020)

References



Info

This document has been produced in the context of the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS).

The activities leading to these results have been contracted by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, operator of CAMS on behalf of the European Union (Delegation Agreement signed on 11/11/2014). All information in this document is provided "as is" and no guarantee or warranty is given that the information is fit for any particular purpose.

The users thereof use the information at their sole risk and liability. For the avoidance of all doubt, the European Commission and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts have no liability in respect of this document, which is merely representing the author's view.


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