WIT Press


The SODCAT System: Pollution On-line Monitoring And Forecasting In The Heavily Industrialized Area Of Tarragon, Spain

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

14

Pages

10

Published

1996

Size

1,388 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/AIR960451

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

P.J. Celma, I.W. Chiarabini & A. Agraz

Abstract

The purpose of the work is the introductory presentation of the comprehensive SODCAT system, a low cost PC computer based system for pollution on-line monitoring and forecasting for the industrialized area of Tarragon. The objective of the SODCAT system is the on-line forecasting with 6 hours of anticipation of atmospheric pollution levels in a 14x14km area, mainly for SOz, CO, NOx and Og It relies on an automatic network of measuring cabins distributed around the area that collects on-line pollution data and meteorological information. The software

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