Author(s)

Gilbert Lissens, Walter Debruyn & Gerwin Dumont

Abstract

Every summer, ground level ozone concentrations rise in Belgium and cause episodes of photochemical summer smog. This phenomenon is the cause of well recognised public health distress especially for people suffering from respiratory diseases. In order to warn groups of sensitive people against forthcoming smog episodes, VITO (the Flemish Instistute for Technological Research) and VMM (the Flemish Environmental Agency) have joined forces to create an ozone pollution forecasting model, called SMOGSTOP (Statistical Models Of Groundlevel Short Term Ozone Pollution). Ozone pollution levels, as well as concentrations of other air pollutants are monitored in Belgium by the telemetric air quality measuring networks of the 3 Belgi

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