Objectives

Primary objectives

Provide air pollution data on the local scale for all of Norway and in Chinese megacities, for population alerts and to support policy decisions on emission reduction measures;

provide population exposure assessments on the local scale to enable health impact assessment;

increase the dialogue between scientists, health experts and policy makers on matters regarding air pollution;

strengthen collaboration between Norway and China in air pollution research, which has received considerable attention in recent years.

Secondary objectives

Collect relevant data in Norway and China to enable downscaling of regional air quality models to the local scale;

develop and implement a novel method to downscale regional air pollution data to the local scale, using satellite and other sources of proxy data;

improve regional operational air quality forecasts provided by EMEP in Europe and China;

improve source allocation calculations for air pollution episodes.