Operational ozone forecasts for Austria

Abstract

The results of the daily ozone forecasts for Austria during the summers 2005 and 2006 have been evaluated with measurements of the Austrian air quality network for eastern parts of Austria. The results show that the observed exceedances of the information threshold can be predicted well by the model (88 % during the summer of 2006). Exceedences of the alarm threshold which often occur in limited areas in the vicinity of industrial sites caused by local peak emissions cannot be resolved by the model. © 2011 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.