By: TOP500 Team

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center released their new CALIOPE EU smartphone app to the public, providing an air-quality forecast for up to two days in advance using the powerful MareNostrum III supercomputer.

Everybody loves a nice bit of fresh air. But now you can see how fresh it really is with a simple glance at your smartphone! A new free mobile app called CALIOPE EU has recently been made available that will allow users to access a 48-hour air-quality forecast. The app can give predicted measurements of five major air pollutants (nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, ozone and two types of particulates) at any location in Europe.

CALIOPE EU was developed by the Earth Sciences Department at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) in Spain, through the European-Commission-funded MYGEOSS project. In November 2015, it received an award from the Group on Earth Observations organization for being one of the best environmental applications that utilizes open data.

The app is an EU-wide version of a 2013 CALIOPE app that made pollution forecasts available for the entirety of Spain. Both of these apps rely on the use of the air-quality modeling system created in 2007 that goes by the same name of CALIOPE.

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