{"id":29794,"date":"2018-10-26T12:31:39","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T07:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=29794"},"modified":"2018-10-26T12:31:39","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T07:01:39","slug":"new-system-to-measure-air-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/new-system-to-measure-air-quality\/","title":{"rendered":"New system to measure air quality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/new-system-to-measure-air-quality\/article23664041.ece\"><strong>New system to measure air quality<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>India is tying up with the <strong>United States <\/strong>and <strong>Finland<\/strong> to develop a pollution-forecast system that will help anticipate particulate matter (PM) levels at least two days in advance and at a greater resolution than what is possible now. The Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) will be coordinating this exercise and the plan is to have a system in place by winter, according to Madhavan Rajeevan, secretary, MoES<\/p>\n<p><strong>New system<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It will use a different method of analysis. This could mean better resolution and more accurate forecasts<\/li>\n<li>It will be jointly developed with expertise from the Finnish Meteorological Institute and the U.S.\u2019 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration<\/li>\n<li><strong>Focus area<\/strong>: A key focus would be to develop forecasts around the \u201cstubble-burning season\u201d that adds to Delhi\u2019s pollution woes in the winter. This refers to the partially-burnt straw and chaff from fields in Uttar Pradesh and Haryana, when farmers are preparing their fields for the sowing season<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Present system in use<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Currently, the <strong>System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research<\/strong> (SAFAR), run out of the <strong>Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology<\/strong> (IITM), Pune, serves as the apex forecaster of pollution trends in Delhi, Mumbai, Pune and Ahmedabad.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It generates a likely air quality profile, a day in advance, for these cities. IITM is an organisation under the <strong>MoES<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New system to measure air quality Context India is tying up with the United States and Finland to develop a pollution-forecast system that will help anticipate particulate matter (PM) levels at least two days in advance and at a greater resolution than what is possible now. The Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) will be coordinating&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/new-system-to-measure-air-quality\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New system to measure air quality<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704687760},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29794","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}