AIR QUALITY INFORMATION SYSTEM IN LITHUANIA

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AIR QUALITY INFORMATION SYSTEM IN LITHUANIA

• Donatas Perkauskas
• Pranas Blonskis
• Global environmental information systems
  challenges for Lithuania,
• 23 October, 2008,Vilnius

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AIR IS (decentralized)
Under the Ministry of Health Protection
GOV
Under the Ministry of Environment
Emissions to the air
Ambient air quality
Indoor air quality
Dept.of statistics
State automatic monitoring system in cities
1 regional background st. LRTRAP, HELCOM conv.
3 rural background stations
Meteorological data
Chemical and meteorolog. data
Chemical and meteorolog. data
Chemical data
Traffic flow data
EPA and 5 REPD
Inst. of physics contract base
EPA
State Environmental Protection centre
EPA
State statistical data databases
AQdatabase
Atmosfera
ICISEM
DBases for modelling
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AIR QUALITY REGULATION IN LITHUANIA TODAY

• Council Directive 96/62/EC of 27 September 1996
  on ambient air quality assessment and management
• Council Directive 1999/30/EC of 22 April 1999
  relating to limit values for sulphur dioxide,
  nitrogen dioxide and oxides of nitrogen,
  particulate matter and lead in ambient air.
• Directive 2000/69/EC of the European Parliament
  and of the Council of 16 November 2000 relating
  to limit values for benzene and carbon monoxide
  in ambient air.
• Directive 2002/3/EC of the European Parliament
  and of the Council of 12 February 2002 relating
  to ozone in ambient air.
• Directive 2004/107/EC of the European Parliament
  and of the Council of 15 December 2004 relating
  to arsenic, cadmium, mercury, nickel and
  polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in ambient air.
• All these directives are transferred into
  Lithuanian law.
• LRTRAP, HELCOM and Stockholm conventions.

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New 2008/50/EC Directive of the European
Parliament and of the Council on ambient air
quality and cleaner air for Europe

• Council Directive 96/62/EC of 27 September 1996
  on ambient air quality assessment and management,
• Council Directive 1999/30/EC of 22 April 1999
  relating to limit values for sulphur dioxide,
  nitrogen dioxide and oxides of nitrogen,
  particulate matter and lead in ambient air,
• Directive 2000/69/EC of the European Parliament
  and of the Council of 16 November 2000 relating
  to limit values for benzene and carbon monoxide
  in ambient air,
• Directive 2002/3/EC of the European Parliament
  and of the Council of 12 February 2002 relating
  to ozone in ambient air,
• Council Decision 97/101/EC of 27 January 1997
  establishing a reciprocal exchange of information
  and data from networks and individual stations
  measuring ambient air pollution within the Member
  States.
• In the interests of clarity, simplification and
  administrative efficiency these five acts are
  replaced by a new single 2008/50/EC Directive
  shall be transferred into Lithuanian law until
  2010-06-11.
• LRTRAP, HELCOM and Stockholm conventions.

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AQ-ICISEM database air part
Stored data information about monitoring
stations and types, laboratories, air quality
parameters, methods, detection limits, units,
monitoring results of physico-chemical and
specific pollutants parameters.
DB management system Oracle.
Data inflow Results of measurements and
analyses, made in laboratories of 5 REPD, MRC,
EPA and those received from LHMS, are entered
into the database via AQdabase data flow. EPA is
a central institution, responsible for monitoring
data collection, analysis and control. Data of
LRTRAP (EMEP programme) and HELCOM conventions,
EC Reglament and Stockholm convention on POPs are
collected also.
Data is collected on the basis of institutional
cooperation and agreements.
Data outflow EC (directives and Reglaments),
LRTRAP (EMEP programme) and HELCOM conventions,
EUROSTAT, EC Reglament and Stockholm convention
on POPs, neighboring countries (on the basis of
agreements), inst., public.
Future steps Currently is under further
development (NRT data transfer to EEA). However,
even further enhancement and modernisation is
needed.
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Reporting flows

• Institutions under the Ministry of Environment
  (EPA, REPD, MRC, LHMS) are responsible for
  reporting on ambient air quality for
• national governmental and science institutions,
• public,
• EC, EEA, EuroStat, LRTRAP,
• HELCOM and Stockholm conventions ,
• neighbouring countries (in accordance with
  international agreements).
• Ministry of Health Protection (State
  Environmental Protection centre) responsible
  for reporting on indoor air quality to EC, state
  institutions and public.

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Integrated information - AIR
ICISEM
Copy of AQdatabase
Data
AQdatabase
AQdata
AIR management and reporting
AIR - emissions
Information analysis, assessment
Integrated information
Atmosfera
Input data
DBases for modelling (including GIS data)
Modelling
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Air Quality Measurement Network in Lithuania
NRT View

• 4 rural background
• 5 urban background
• 5 transport type
• 2 densely populated
• 1 industrial type

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State ambient air monitoring programme for the
2007
PARAMETERS City monitoring stations City monitoring stations City monitoring stations City monitoring stations City monitoring stations City monitoring stations City monitoring stations City monitoring stations City monitoring stations City monitoring stations City monitoring stations City monitoring stations City monitoring stations
PARAMETERS VILNIUS VILNIUS VILNIUS VILNIUS KAUNAS KEDAI- NIAI JONA- VA KLAIPEDA KLAIPEDA ŠIAU- LIAI N.AK- MENE MAŽEI KIAI PANE- VEŽYS
PARAMETERS Senamiestis Lazdynai Žirmunai Savanoriu pr. Petrašiunai 0043 0042 Centre Šilutes rw. 0022 0021 0023 0012
PARAMETERS 0001 0002 0003 0004 0041 0043 0042 0031 0033 0022 0021 0023 0012
PARTICULATE MATTER (PM10)
PARTICULATE MATTER (PM2,5)
SULPHUR DIOXIDE
NITROGEN DIOXIDE
NITROGEN MONOXIDE
NITROGEN OXIDES
CARBON MONOXIDE
OZONE
VOC (BENZENE)
HEAVY METALS FROM TSP
PAH (BENZO(A)PYRENE) FROM TSP
HEAVY METALS FROM PM10
PAH (BENZO(A)PYRENE) FROM PM10
METEOROLOGICAL PARAMTERS
TRAFFIC COUNTER/CLASIFIER
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Public information access
http//aaa.am.lt
http//gamta.lt
Air quality index
Selected Pollutant Graphic (O3)
Forecast
Today
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Lithuanian stations appended to EEA NRT data
network

• 3 rural background
• 2 urban background

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Data path between station and central server

• Collecting raw AQ data
• Creating hourly data pack
• Sending data pack through GSM GPRS network to
  central server

Station
Data.zip
EPA Air data server
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Air Quality Information System Data Flow Scheme

• Receiving raw AQ data from all stations
• Saving raw AQ data in Temporary Data Base
• Preparation of hourly averages for EPA, EEA and
  REPD
• Sending hourly averages
• Archiving sent data

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Data approval system for EEA(under development)

• Data resending by approval system
• Approved AQ data ( 2-3 days old averages )
• Recovered data after network failure

Recovered data (not NRT)
NRT Data From LTU
Data goes into database
Manual quality control
EEA NRT Server
Prepare data for resending
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Future Air Quality Information System Data Flow
Scheme
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NRT Data to EEA

• Now
• O3 from 3 rural background stations
• PM10 from 2 urban background stations.

• After development of Approved data sending
• O3 from 3 rural background stations
• O3 from 5 urban background stations
• PM10 from 5 urban background stations
• PM10 or O3 from other stations, if need.

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Current Status and Main Issues

• Most of the data and information needed to
  fulfill reporting obligations is collected and
  stored in AQdatabase
• Air quality IS are not fully adjusted to the
  reporting obligations (reporting formats still
  under development etc.)
• Dificult to share data between other IS with
  different types of programming and technical
  infrastructure,
• Unfinished development and modernization of IS
• Lack of sufficient human resources manage the
  DBs
• The flow of data necessarry to fulfil reporting
  obligations is legally regulated

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Future plans

• Most of AIR related DBs/ISs will be enhanced
  separately at the first stage (2009-2011)
• At the 2nd stage (2013 end of structure funds
  period) integration of separate AIR related
  DBs/ISs is planned

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Thank you for your attention
(Y)OUR QUALITY OF LIFE