PARIS: an information system for air pollution management in the urban area of Athens

摘要

This paper presents the Pollution of Air Research Information System (PARIS) designed and developed for the efficient management and analysis of both the air pollution loads and the meteorological conditions provided by the measurement networks of Athens urban area. PARIS accepts measurements in various formats, with fast sampling rates, for long recording periods, from a number of different stations and performs multidimensional statistical treatment and analysis as well as presentation of data and results in graphs and tables for a user defined time window. The system confronts successfully with the manipulation problem of huge amount of experimental data and using modern object oriented and user interface techniques constitutes an essential tool for the exploitation of spatial, temporal and long-term variations of actual air pollution data, the determination of air quality and the study of air pollution episodes.