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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 

10th Joint session of EMEP Steering Body and WGE

The 10th Joint Session of the EMEP Steering Body and the Working Group on Effects (WGE) took place in Geneva (Swtzerrland) from September 9-13, 2024. At this meeting, the EMEP Centres, Task Forces, and the WGE’s International Cooperative Programmes (ICPs) reported on their recent and ongoing activities and discussed plans and [...]

25th meeting of the Task Force on Measurements and Modelling (TFMM)

The 25th meeting of the Task Force on Measurements and Modelling (TFMM) of EMEP took place from May 6-7, 2024, in Warsaw, Poland. TFMM serves as a forum for the Parties to the Air Conventions, EMEP Centres, and other international organisations to discuss and evaluate measurements and modelling, and to further [...]

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

  • Assessment of heavy metal and POP pollution on global, regional and national scales. Joint MSC-E, CCC, CEIP, IMR, CEIMAT, INERIS, ENEA and FMI Report

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.

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