{"id":21999,"date":"2024-03-30T11:30:20","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T06:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=21999"},"modified":"2025-04-06T16:45:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T11:15:43","slug":"decision-support-system-dss-for-air-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/decision-support-system-dss-for-air-quality\/","title":{"rendered":"Decision Support System (DSS) for Air Quality"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Decision Support System<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is developed by\u00a0Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) Pune.<\/li>\n<li>It is a\u00a0numerical model-based framework to\u00a0forecast Delhi\u2019s air quality\u00a0and sources of local and regional pollution which can impact the air.<\/li>\n<li>DSS provides quantitative information about\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0contribution of emissions\u00a0from Delhi and the surrounding 19 districts to the air quality in Delhi.<\/li>\n<li>The contribution of emissions from\u00a08 different emission sectors in Delhi to the air quality Delhi.<\/li>\n<li>The contribution from\u00a0biomass-burning activities in the neighboring states to the degradation of air quality in Delhi, and<\/li>\n<li>The effects of possible emission source-level interventions on the forecast severe air-quality event in Delhi.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The system, which works only in winter and is stopped from March to August.<\/li>\n<li>Now, the system will also forecast how Delhi\u2019s emissions impact\u00a0the air of eight surrounding districts in NCR.<\/li>\n<li>The two models \u2014 System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (Safar) and DSS \u2014 had temporarily stopped sharing data on air pollution for the country as there were differences between their forecasts and source contribution.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the SAFAR system?<\/h3>\n<p>It stands for System of Air Quality Forecasting and Research. SAFAR is an air quality monitoring system. It was introduced by the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) to provide location specific information on air quality in near real time and its forecast upto 3 days in India.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/delhi\/system-to-identify-pollution-sources-back-in-2-0-version\/articleshow\/108861722.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>System to identify pollution sources back in 2.0 version<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Decision Support System (DSS) for air quality is developed by Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) Pune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}