Copernicus

Atmosphere

Monitoring

Service

CAMS General Assembly, Athens, 14-16 June 2016

Xiaobo Yang, Vincent-Henri Peuch (ECMWF)

How to make CAMS outputs

more useful for users?

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Topics

• Products

• Presentation of products

• Organize the way we interact with users

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Topic 1: Products

• Offer a new product: air quality index

• Opportunity: DG-Environment is working on defining

an European air quality index

• Offer more support on downstream service

development especially downscaling air quality

products

• Various approaches available including some very

simple ones, e.g., model output statistics

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Topic 1: Products (cont.)

• We should provide more information about where our

CAMS products do not require downscaling (maps

depending on different pollutants)

• Investigate a new product: contribution of natural aerosols

(dust and sea salt) to PM (both global and regional)

• Importance of adding nitrates in the aerosols represented in

the global system (ongoing)

• Offer combined solution for air quality and weather

products

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Topic 2: Presentation of products

• Review the timeliness of products, daily and delayed-

mode products (survey the users)

• Investigate a personalized catalogue so that users can

easily find out their preferred products

• Organize hackathon or challenge to stimulate

development of smartphone apps using CAMS data

• Looking into development of CAMS games, e.g.,

educational games or more ambitious by approaching

large game developing companies

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Topic 2: Presentation of products

• Improve visibility of existing applications of CAMS on the

web site, e.g., SDS-WAS, ICAP

• Take opportunities of exceptional events to give practical

details on CAMS products which are used to generate

information

• Intermediate users

• Investigate a notification service that users can customize,

e.g., define area and threshold and receive email/text

• Review color scale of air quality maps, especially PM

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Topic 3: Organize the way we interact with users

• Target user groups and organize side events at

meetings they are attending

• For policy users, this exists

• Target agriculture, health…

• Approach WHO on the contribution of CAMS global

maps of air quality especially PM

• Keep a good connection with the user uptake activities

that are funded separated by EC