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)
Events
AGU25 Annual Meeting
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting is an international conference which presents the largest gathering of Earth & Space scientists, with over 25 000 registered attendees from over 100 countries. Jan Gačnik, a researcher from the Meteorological Synthesizing Centre – East (MSC-E), participated at the AGU Annual Meeting 2025 (AGU 2025), [...]
5th Annual Meeting of The Mediterranean Geosciences Union (MedGU)
The fifth Annual Meeting of the Mediterranean Geosciences Union (MedGU) was held in Athens, Greece, from 10 to 12 November 2025. MedGU aims to bring together and represent the Mediterranean geoscience community working across Earth, planetary, and space sciences. Its mission is to strengthen the role of Earth sciences in policy-making, [...]
6th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury (COP-6)
A representative from the Meteorological Synthesizing Centre - East (MSC-E), Jan Gačnik, together with colleagues from the Department of Environmental Sciences (JSI-O2), participated in the Sixth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury (COP-6). COP-6 was held in Geneva, Switzerland, from 3 to 7 November [...]
Information on pollution levels
MSC-E conducts operational modelling of heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants (POPs) contamination and their transboundary transport across countries. Annual status and changes of the pollution are provided through pollution maps, temporal trends, and estimates of transboundary pollution.
Latest Publication
Transboundary pollution by heavy metals and POPs. Joint MSC-E, CEIP and CCC Report
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.
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Minamata Convention
Stockholm Convention
Stockholm Convention
Helcom
HELCOM
Ospar
OSPAR
Amap
AMAP