The Forum for Air Quality Modelling (FAIRMODE) is a European network to exchange experiences and competences on the use of air quality models in the context of the Ambient Air Quality Directives. Its purpose is to identify and promote the use of good practices for air quality modelling and to propose harmonized ways to assess the quality of model-based air quality applications by EU Member States. The recommendations in this document are part of FAIRMODE’s contribution to the on-going revision of the EU Ambient Air Quality
Directives (Directives 2008/50/EC and 2004/107/EC, hereafter AAQDs) initiated by the European Commission and are an update of the previous recommendations to the fitness check of those Directives (1). This document builds on the existing recommendations from FAIRMODE provided in 2019 regarding modelling applications. The current document has been revised in view of the latest consensus on the maturity of modelling applications and their uses for air quality management purposes. It provides strategic and technical recommendations where there is significant level consensus within the FAIRMODE expert community. It identifies how and where these recommendations may be included in the context of the revision of the AAQDs. These recommendations would require additional work of Member States were they to be implemented and would have implications for the work of the FAIRMODE network concerning the development of relevant
guidance documents to support the recommendations.
THUNIS Philippe;
JANSSEN Stijn;
WESSELING Joost;
PIERSANTI Antonio;
PIROVANO G.;
TARRASON Leonor;
MARTIN Fernando;
LOPEZ-APARICIO Susana;
BESSAGNET Bertrand;
GUEVARA Marc;
MONTEIRO A.;
CLAPPIER Alain;
PISONI Enrico;
GUERREIRO Cristina;
GONZALEZ-ORTIZ Alberto;
Thunis, P., Janssen, S., Wesseling, J., Piersanti, A., Pirovano, G., Tarrason, L., Martin, F., Lopez-Aparicio, S., Bessagnet, B., Guevara, M., Monteiro, A., Clappier, A., Pisoni, E., Guerreiro, C. and Gonzalez-Ortiz, A., Recommendations for the revision of the ambient air quality directives (AAQDs) regarding modelling applications, EUR 31102 EN, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2022, ISBN 978-92-76-53279-8, doi:10.2760/761078, JRC129600.
2022-06-15
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC129600
978-92-76-53279-8 (online),
1831-9424 (online),
EUR 31102 EN,
OP KJ-NA-31102-EN-N (online),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC129600,
10.2760/761078 (online),
