Developed by the FIUPM, the system has been used successfully both inside and outside of Spain.

The School of Computing at the Technical University of Madrid (FIUPM) has developed a computer system that can robustly and efficiently monitor and forecast air pollution.

The computer system is capable of making real-time air quality forecasts and analyzing the impact of static and dynamic emission sources in runtime mode. As such, it can help environmental authorities to reduce air quality problems.

The air quality of a particular region is determined by the geographical distribution of the emission sources, the amount of pollutants released, the physical and chemical processes taking place in the atmosphere, the climatology and the orography. These factors affect the processes of dispersion and transportation.

The system developed at the FIUPM includes complex atmospheric models, perfectly fitted to the complexity and non-linearity of the processes taking place in a totally dynamic atmosphere.

In all cases where the system has been used (forecasting, historical or real-time modes), the validation module confirmed the reliability of results, thereby endorsing this tool as ideal for atmospheric modeling.