AIR QUALITY FORECAST FOR ARCTIC COMMUNITIES (AURORAE) SERVICE

The AURORAE service is a web interface consisting in a visual tool to monitor the air quality of the North European countries on daily basis and to provide a two-day forecast of particulate matter concentrations. The web page is designed for non-scientific users such as communities, stakeholders and citizens. The air pollution near-real-time concentrations and the forecast are visualized on the map as two separate layers, each monitoring station is represented as a dot and depending on its color the air quality is classified from good to unhealthy. In addition, the monitored past trend of air pollution at a selected station and the forecast at hourly resolution can be visualized a separate interactive window. The particulate matter forecast released every day for each station can be downloaded as a txt file and the AURORAE service also provides a daily bulletin reporting the forecast for all the stations to provide a broad overview of air pollution status for all Northern communities.