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A user-friendly web-based version of the global Air Quality Source-Receptor Model TM5-FASST

FASST web tool

The TM5-FASST tool, developed at JRC Ispra (Italy), allows to evaluate how air pollutant emissions affect large scale pollutant concentrations and their impact on human health (mortality, years of life lost) and crop yield. The tool is specifically designed to compare a scenario (policy case) with a counterfactual case (baseline). The target policy domains are national to regional air quality policies, or air pollutant scenarios linked to other policy domains (e.g. climate policy). The tool is particularly user-friendly, web-based, flexible, does not require any coding or modelling experience and can be applied from the global to the regional domain. The user can make use of a number of built-in scenario groups or apply custom emission scenarios.

Main Features

GUI
Easy to use Graphical User Interface
Emissions
Import emissions from Edgar or from any other system
Maps
Maps automatically created
Plots
Plots automatically created
Save & Load
Archive your projects, retrieve and compare them when needed
Reports
Automatically exports reports as CSV files

Publications

Belis, C.A., Matkovic, V., Ballocci, M., Jevtic, M., Millo, G., Mata, E., Van Dingenen, R., 2023.
Assessment of health impacts and costs attributable to air pollution in urban areas using two different approaches. A case study in the Western Balkans.
Environment International 182, 108347. doi:10.1016/j.envint.2023.108347
Belis, C.A.; Van Dingenen, R. 2023.
Air quality and related health impact in the UNECE region: source attribution and scenario analysis.
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. doi:10.5194/acp-23-8225-2023
Pisoni, E., P. Thunis, A. De Meij, J. Wilson, B. Bessagnet, M. Crippa, D. Guizzardi, C. A. Belis, and R. Van Dingenen. 2023.
Modelling the Air Quality Benefits of EU Climate Mitigation Policies using Two Different PM2.5-Related Health Impact Methodologies.
Environment International 172. doi:10.1016/j.envint.2023.107760
Belis, C. A., R. Van Dingenen, Z. Klimont, and F. Dentener. 2022.
Scenario Analysis of PM2.5 and Ozone Impacts on Health, Crops and Climate with TM5-FASST: A Case Study in the Western Balkans.
Journal of Environmental Management 319. doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115738
Dentener, F., L. Emberson, S. Galmarini, G. Cappelli, A. Irimescu, D. Mihailescu, R. Van Dingenen, and M. Van Den Berg. 2020.
Lower Air Pollution during COVID-19 Lock-Down: Improving Models and Methods Estimating Ozone Impacts on Crops: O3-Crop Impact during COVID-19.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 378 (2183). doi:10.1098/rsta.2020.0188
Gu, B., L. Zhang, R. V. Dingenen, M. Vieno, H. J. M. V. Grinsven, X. Zhang, S. Zhang, et al. 2021.
Abating Ammonia is More Cost-Effective than Nitrogen Oxides for Mitigating PM2.5 Air Pollution.
Science 374 (6568): 758-762. doi:10.1126/science.abf8623
Harmsen, M. J. H. M., P. van Dorst, D. P. van Vuuren, M. van den Berg, R. Van Dingenen, and Z. Klimont. 2020.
Co-Benefits of Black Carbon Mitigation for Climate and Air Quality.
Climatic Change 163 (3): 1519-1538. doi:10.1007/s10584-020-02800-8
Kühn, T., K. Kupiainen, T. Miinalainen, H. Kokkola, V. -V Paunu, A. Laakso, J. Tonttila, et al. 2020.
Effects of Black Carbon Mitigation on Arctic Climate.
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 20 (9): 5527-5546. doi:10.5194/acp-20-5527-202
Sampedro, J., S. J. Smith, I. Arto, M. Gonzàlez-Eguino, A. Markandya, K. M. Mulvaney, C. Pizarro-Irizar, and R. Van Dingenen. 2020.
Health Co-Benefits and Mitigation Costs as Per the Paris Agreement Under Different Technological Pathways for Energy Supply.
Environment International 136. doi:10.1016/j.envint.2020.105513
Shindell, D., G. Faluvegi, P. Kasibhatla, and R. Van Dingenen. 2019.
Spatial Patterns of Crop Yield Change by Emitted Pollutant.
Earth's Future 7 (2): 101-112. doi:10.1029/2018EF001030
Van Dingenen, R., F. Dentener, M. Crippa, J. Leitao, E. Marmer, S. Rao, E. Solazzo, and L. Valentini. 2018.
TM5-FASST: A Global Atmospheric Source-Receptor Model for Rapid Impact Analysis of Emission Changes on Air Quality and Short-Lived Climate Pollutants.
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 18 (21): 16173-16211. doi:10.5194/acp-18-16173-2018
Vandyck, T., K. Keramidas, A. Kitous, J. V. Spadaro, R. Van Dingenen, M. Holland, and B. Saveyn. 2018.
Air Quality Co-Benefits for Human Health and Agriculture Counterbalance Costs to Meet Paris Agreement Pledges.
Nature Communications 9 (1). doi:10.1038/s41467-018-06885-9
Vandyck, T., S. Rauner, J. Sampedro, E. Lanzi, L. A. Reis, M. Springmann, and R. V. Dingenen. 2021.
Integrate Health into Decision-Making to Foster Climate Action.
Environmental Research Letters 16 (4). doi:10.1088/1748-9326/abef8d

Contact us

To contact us please send an e-mail to JRC-FASST@ec.europa.eu.