Mumbai Air Quality Short Course

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Air Quality Short Course
at
Indian Instiute of Technology Bombay
Mumbai, December 6 and 7, 2012

An air quality short course will be organized by McDonnell Academy Global Energy and Environment Partnership in collaboration with India Air Quality Resource Group and ESIP Air Quality Work Group. Goal of this course is capacity building for assessing nature and sources of air pollution over India. The course is intended for air quality managers and members of academia interested in air quality analyses and assessments. Capacity building in this area will improve decision making and more effective control measures.

First day is devoted to technical topics and to provide attendees with practical, "take home" tools and methods including case studies: Air quality data sources, analyses tools and methods; Spatial and temporal patterns; Integration of multi-sensory data and models for India. The second day will start with a higher level discussions involving India Pollution Control Board leaders, and delegates from other countries. A panel discussion will be a forum to highlight the outstanding needs in air quality analyses for effective control measures. In response to these needs, action items will include charting a three year calendar for collaborative education and research.


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Course Content & Schedule

Day 1

09.00-09.30: Welcome & Introduction
09.30-10.30: Data Resources & Analyses Tools
10.30-11.00: Break
11.00-12.30: Surface based networks & measurements
12.30-01.30: Lunch
13.30-15.00: Satellites, Models & Emissions
15.00-15.30: Break
15.30-16.30: Combining satellite and surface observations with models
16.30-17.00: Summary and discussion (Panel+Open)
17.00-17.30: Break
17.30-18.30: DataFed Tutorial

Day 2


Discussion
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Resources & Tools

Milestones

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