Clean Air funding awards
Details of funding awards from the Clean Air programme that ran from 2019 to 2025
March 2022
Birmingham University led a new project funded by the Met Office and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to design tools that can produce accurate models of indoor air quality.
The project aimed to increase the understanding of indoor air pollutants and enable people planning or assessing an indoor space to build an accurate picture of the likely sources, levels and risks of pollutants.
Find out more by reading this article.
February 2022
Global Action Plan (GAP) partnered with the Met Office to deliver an air quality outreach programme for adults and children.
The project was designed to communicate information about air quality to the public through the creation and dissemination of trustworthy, accessible, and impactful science-based materials.
Find out more by reading this article..
October 2020
On Clean Air Day 2020 the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) announced their receipt of funding as part of the Clean Air programme. The principle reason for NPL’s involvement in the Clean Air programme is to bring independent metrological expertise to the diverse research activities being undertaken within the programme, and operation of the Metrology Network provides an ideal route to achieve this goal.
Find out more by reading this article.
April 2020
Open funding calls for the Clean Air programme were announced in August 2019. Following the bidding process and evaluation of the submitted bids, we are pleased to announce that the following projects would begin in early 2020:
Developing a UK Community Emission Modelling System (DUKEMS)
Awardees: UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH, coordination), Ricardo, Aether, University of York, University of Manchester, University of Birmingham, King’s College London, Imperial College London, Rothamsted Research.
The core objectives of the project were the delivery of a framework and tools designed to be operational long-term in supporting the atmospheric modelling community by providing a flexible, user-friendly system to deliver emission input data for modelling in a transparent, traceable and reproducible manner.
Find out more about this project.
For further details visit the DUKEMS website.
Coupled national and local scale air quality modelling - MAQS-Health (Multi-Model Air Quality System for Health Research)
Awardees: Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants Ltd (CERC), with expertise in software development, support and application of local dispersion models (ADMS), and regional model experts from the universities of Birmingham, Edinburgh, Hertfordshire and Lancaster.
This project was awarded in response to the call for ‘Urban Outdoor Air Quality Modelling’ to provide a high-resolution prediction capability to support personal exposure for health impacts. The system comprised a coupled air quality modelling system spanning national to urban street scales and accounting for physical and chemical processes occurring at all relevant spatial and temporal scales.
Air quality exposure modelling - Data Integration Model for Exposure Modelling (DIMEX-UK)
Awardees: University of Exeter, University of Manchester
This project developed a framework in which data on concentrations of air pollution can be combined with human activity and health data. The aim of the project was to develop a modelling framework to integrate ambient and indoor concentrations with human activity to estimate personal exposures to air pollution for use in future health impact analysis and other applications.