{"id":142036,"date":"2021-10-20T19:09:59","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T13:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=142036"},"modified":"2021-10-22T18:05:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T12:35:40","slug":"union-minister-launches-air-quality-early-warning-system-to-coincide-with-azadi-ka-amrit-mahotsava","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/union-minister-launches-air-quality-early-warning-system-to-coincide-with-azadi-ka-amrit-mahotsava\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Minister launches Air Quality Early Warning System to coincide with Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsava"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Union Minister has launched a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Decision Support System<\/strong>(DSS) that extends the ability of the existing <strong>Air Quality Early Warning System<\/strong> (AQEWS) to have decision-making capability for air quality management in Delhi-NCR.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Background<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2018-19, the<strong> Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology<\/strong>(IITM) had launched an &#8216;Air Quality Early Warning System&#8217; (AQEWS) to alert the citizens and the policymakers about the possible severe air-quality events about 7-10 days in advance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the policymakers needed more precise information on the potential sources responsible for the degraded air quality during a forecast severe air-quality event.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Such information would help them monitor and control such emission sources and thus assist them in making decisions to manage air quality.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hence, realizing this need, IITM has launched AQEWS with a &#8216;Decision Support System&#8217; (DSS) for air-quality management in Delhi.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What information will the AQEWS with a DSS will provide? <\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DSS provides quantitative information about:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The contribution of emissions from Delhi and the surrounding 19 districts to the air quality in Delhi,\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The contribution of emissions from 8 different emission sectors in Delhi to the air quality of Delhi,\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The contribution from biomass-burning activities in the neighboring states to the degradation of air quality in Delhi, and\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The effects of possible emission source-level interventions on the forecast severe air-quality event in Delhi.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hence, this information would explicitly highlight the most important emission sources responsible for the degraded air quality in Delhi and suggest possible solutions to the policymakers<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c<\/b><b>Union Minister launches Air Quality Early Warning System to coincide with Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsava<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> PIB <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on <\/span><b>19th October 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? The Union Minister has launched a Decision Support System(DSS) that extends the ability of the existing Air Quality Early Warning System (AQEWS) to have decision-making capability for air quality management in Delhi-NCR. Background In 2018-19, the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology(IITM) had launched an &#8216;Air Quality Early Warning System&#8217; (AQEWS) to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/union-minister-launches-air-quality-early-warning-system-to-coincide-with-azadi-ka-amrit-mahotsava\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Union Minister launches Air Quality Early Warning System to coincide with Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsava<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[380,10360,10147,8659],"class_list":["post-142036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-air-pollution","tag-air-quality-early-warning-system","tag-amrit-mahotsav-celeberation","tag-environmental-pollution","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}