Title: SICAH: an automatic system for the control and prevention of air pollution in Huelva (Spain)

Authors: F. Martin, C. Gonzalez, A. Bailador, E. Sanchez, I. Palomino, M. Palacios, S.N. Crespi, C. Gorostiza

Addresses: Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnologicas, (CIEMAT), Avda. Complutense 22, 28040 Madrid, Spain. Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnologicas, (CIEMAT), Avda. Complutense 22, 28040 Madrid, Spain. Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnologicas, (CIEMAT), Avda. Complutense 22, 28040 Madrid, Spain. Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnologicas, (CIEMAT), Avda. Complutense 22, 28040 Madrid, Spain. Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnologicas, (CIEMAT), Avda. Complutense 22, 28040 Madrid, Spain. Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnologicas, (CIEMAT), Avda. Complutense 22, 28040 Madrid, Spain. Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnologicas, (CIEMAT), Avda. Complutense 22, 28040 Madrid, Spain. Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnologicas, (CIEMAT), Avda. Complutense 22, 28040 Madrid, Spain

Abstract: An automatic system for control of the air pollution in the industrialised area of Huelva has being developed by CIEMAT. This system is called ||Sistema informatico para control y prevencion de la contaminacion atmosferica en Huelva|| (SICAH). SICAH is a Visual C++ programme that runs under Windows 95/NT. SICAH includes a Geographic Information System (GIS) and runs Fortran numerical scientific codes including a mesoscale Lagrangian puff dispersion model called MELPUFF. SICAH has been designed to receive and automatically process the information on air quality, emission and meteorological networks in real-time and provide predictions of concentrations of SO₂, PM₁₀, SH₂ and CO.

Keywords: air pollution modelling; air quality management; decision support system.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEP.2001.000648

International Journal of Environment and Pollution, 2001 Vol.16 No.1/2/3/4/5/6, pp.537-549

Published online: 09 Jul 2003 *

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