| The developed under INTAS grant web portal ATMOS (http://atmos.iao.ru and http://atmos.scert.ru)
makes available to the international research
community, environmental managers, and the interested public, a bilingual
information source for the domain of Atmospheric Physics and Chemistry, and
the related application domain of air quality assessment and management.
It offers access to integrated thematic information, experimental data,
analytical tools and models, case studies, and related information and
educational resources compiled, structured, and edited by the partners into
a coherent and consistent thematic information resource. While offering the
usual components of a thematic site such as link collections, user group
registration, discussion forum, news section etc., the site is distinguished
by its scientific information services and tools: on-line models and
analytical tools, and data collections and case studies together with
tutorial material.
The portal is organized as a set of interrelated scientific sites, which
addressed basic branches of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate Modeling as
well as the applied domains of Air Quality Assessment and Management,
Modeling, and Environmental Impact Assessment. Each scientific site is open
for external access information-computational system realized by means of
Internet technologies. The main basic science topics are devoted to
Atmospheric Chemistry, Atmospheric Spectroscopy and Radiation, Atmospheric
Aerosols, Atmospheric Dynamics and Atmospheric Models, including climate
models.
The portal ATMOS reflects current tendency of Environmental Sciences
transformation into exact (quantitative) sciences and is quite effective
example of modern Information Technologies and Environmental Sciences
integration. It makes the portal both an auxiliary instrument to support
interdisciplinary projects of regional environment and extensive educational
resource in this important domain. |