SAFAR, a home-grown system that provides air quality in near real time and its forecast, has been accepted internationally. The recognition will likely be a big boost for air quality forecasting across India.

The System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR), mandated under the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP), gives out air quality data for Delhi, Mumbai, Pune and Ahmedabad. The findings of its research paper ‘India’s maiden air quality forecasting framework for megacities of divergent environments: The SAFAR-project’ were published in peer-reviewed international Elsevier Journal ‘Environmental Modelling and Software’ on Tuesday.