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Calendar

• 26 October 2007: Project kick-off meeting, The Netherlands.
• 16-17 October 2008: Mid-term meeting, Beijing.
• 24 June 2009: Progress meeting, Barcelona.
• 23 October 2009: Final meeting, Beijing.

AMFIC in the media

• 8 July 2009 Press release from KNMI (in dutch): Betere luchtkwaliteit na Olympische Spelen in China.
• September 2008 Belgium magazine Fedra with an article in Dutch and French.
• 13 August 2008 Article in The Wall Street Journal: Air Pollution in Beijing
• 9 August 2008 Article in The New York Times: Assessing the Air in Beijing
• 5 August 2008 TV performance at VRT één (in Dutch): VITO voorspelt lucht in Peking
• 5 August 2008 TV performance at RTL (in French): La pollution de Pékin surveillée par des Belges!
• 5 August 2008 Press release from VITO: Air quality forecast for Beijing during the Olympic Games
• 4 August 2008 TV performance at RTBF (in French): Des scientifiques belges aux JO de Pékin
• 29 July 2008 Press release from BIRA-IASB (in dutch): BIRA to Olympic Games in Beijing
• 22 July 2008 Press release from KNMI (in dutch): Weer en luchtkwaliteit Olympische Spelen in China.
• 22 July 2008 ESA portal story: Air Quality Forecasts for China.
• 29 June 2007 Press release BIRA-IASB (in dutch): Belgium and China will closely co-operate in research of atmospheric opllution.

Other links

• Air quality forecast maps for Beijing
  Street-level air polution maps using the AMFIC model results as input for their boundary conditions.
• DRAGON2 website
  The ESA web-site about the ESA-NRSCC DRAGON2 cooperation programme.
• Harvard China Project
  An interdisciplinary, collaborative research program focused on China's atmospheric environment at Harvard University.
• TEMIS
  Images and data archive of aerosols and tropospheric trace gases as retrieved by GOME, SCIAMACHY, OMI and GOME-2
• Babelfish
  Translates websites from Chinese to English and from English to Chinese
• Beijing public net for environmental protection
  Publishes timeseries of the air polution indexes of NO2, SO2 and PM10 in Beijing.
  In Chinese, translate to English.
• Shanghai environmental monitoring center
  Publishes timeseries of the air polution indexes of NO2, SO2 and PM10 in Shanghai.
  In Chinese, translate to English.
• Clear the air -- HongKong
  Information about the air pollution in HongKong and surroundings. Including Air quality index measurements. Similar information can be found here.
• SEPA
  Information from the China's State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA).