Air quality models are playing vital roles in tasks concerning the air quality planning and regulatory compliance checking. As the content of air quality models becomes more sophisticated, both in their scientific mechanisms and in their data input, a successful job requires different aspect in supports and specialties. Taiwan EPA urged by this requirement has established the Air Quality Modeling Center (AQMC), which recruits expertise and data resources in different institutes over the Island and is connected over the Internet platform to carry out its missions. In this project, it is intended to layout the organization and operation of AQMC, Taiwan. As an answer to pleas from the air pollution community, AQMC’s operation is aimed to serve the community needs in three major areas, namely the expertise in advanced air pollution modeling, the data acquisition needs in model input and the computational platform needs. Furthermore, to meet the continuous challenge of both the scientific and legal advancement in the community, AQMC also serves as the forum for new ideas and cooperative endeavors for future Air Quality. AQMC, Taiwan has been inaugurated for over 10 months. In its initial phase, six universities and one leading consultant company have been involved in hardware, software and data bank supporting tasks. Through the web site contents and online information retrieving services, AQMC has achieved its minimum function required by its goals. Both the reduction in task duplications and improvement in service and job quality are widely noticed by the community. The prospective of a final dynamic air quality managing system through the daily operation of AQMC is the consensus among the common participating members.

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