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The Atmosphere Monitoring Service of the European Copernicus Programme (CAMS) is an operational service providing analyses, reanalyses and daily forecasts of aerosols, reactive gases and greenhouse gases on a global scale, and air quality forecasts and reanalyses on a regional scale. In CAMS, data assimilation techniques are applied to provide daily analyses using remote sensing and in-situ air quality observations. The global component is based on the Integrated Forecast System of the ECMWF, and the regional component on an ensemble of nine European air quality models. For more information: http://atmosphere.copernicus.eu
CAMS has a dedicated validation activity - implemented by a partnership of 13 institutes co-ordinated by KNMI - to document the quality of the atmospheric composition products. In our contribution we discuss this validation activity, including the measurement data sets, validation requirements, the operational aspects, the upgrade procedure, the validation reports and scoring methods, and the model configurations and assimilation systems validated. Of special concern are the forecasts of high pollution concentration events (fires, dust storms, air pollution events, volcano eruptions).
