{"id":87210,"date":"2020-03-31T14:50:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T09:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=14706"},"modified":"2020-03-31T14:50:26","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T09:20:26","slug":"system-of-air-quality-and-weather-forecasting-and-research-safar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/system-of-air-quality-and-weather-forecasting-and-research-safar\/","title":{"rendered":"System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> According to the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research (Safar), the impact of the measures taken due to the coronavirus outbreak has resulted in a drop in PM2.5 by 30% in Delhi and by 15% in Ahmedabad and Pune.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>SAFAR is a system to measure the air quality of a metropolitan city. It measures the overall pollution level and the location-specific air quality of the city.<\/li><li>Launched by:Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES)<\/li><li>Developed by:Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Operationalized by<\/strong>: India Meteorological Department (IMD).<\/li><li><strong>Cities covered: <\/strong>Delhi, Pune, Mumbai and Ahmedabad<\/li><li><strong>Information provided:&nbsp;<\/strong><ul><li>Air quality forecast, 1-3 days in advance (Pollutants measured: PM2.5, PM10, Ozone, Carbon Monoxide (CO), Nitrogen Oxides (NOx), Sulfur Dioxide (SO2), Benzene, Toluene, Xylene, and Mercury)<\/li><li>Weather forecast, 1-3 days in advance<\/li><li>Location-specific UV index information<\/li><li>Emission scenario<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Air Quality Index (AQI):<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The AQI classifies air quality of a day considering criteria pollutants through colour codes and air quality descriptor. Further, it also links air quality with likely human health impacts.<\/li><li>Measures eight major pollutants: particulate matter (PM 10 and PM 2.5), nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide, ozone, carbon monoxide, ammonia and lead.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: According to the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research (Safar), the impact of the measures taken due to the coronavirus outbreak has resulted in a drop in PM2.5 by 30% in Delhi and by 15% in Ahmedabad and Pune. Facts: SAFAR is a system to measure the air quality of a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/system-of-air-quality-and-weather-forecasting-and-research-safar\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4961],"class_list":["post-87210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-safar","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704686791},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87210","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=87210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}