/ Model assessment of environmental pollution with toxic substances

Meteorological Synthesizing Centre /East (MSC-E) is an International Research Centre hosted by the Department of Environmental Sciences at the Jožef Stefan Institute (Ljubljana, Slovenia). Responsible for model assessment of environmental pollution with heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants for the EMEP Programme of the UNECE Air Convention.

Department of Environmental Sciences, Jožef Stefan Institute (JSI)

European Monitoring and Assessment Programme (EMEP)

Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (Air Convention)

Latest Publication

Development of modeling tools

Pollutants of interest

Heavy metals

Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)

Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CECs)

GLEMOS

Model description

Source code

Input data

Auxiliary tools

Meteorological preprocessor

Chemical preprocessor

Data processing and visualization

Co-operation with international organizations and programmes

MSC-E collaborates with various international organisations and programmes to enhance research and assessment approaches used by the Centre and to disseminate the scientific knowledge gained through the Air Convention. These international bodies include the Minamata Convention on Mercury, the Stockholm Convention on POPs, the Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission (HELCOM), the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (OSPAR), the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), and others.