India, Jan. 23 -- With Mumbai's air quality slipping into the 'moderate' category on Wednesday, the BMC has moved ahead with the rollout of Project AIRWISE, an advanced air quality intelligence and forecasting system being implemented in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune. The system is designed specifically for Mumbai and the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) and will function as a decision-support tool for pollution mitigation and enforcement planning.

According to BMC officials, AIRWISE is a model-ready air quality intelligence, forecasting and source attribution system that will integrate meteorological data, satellite observations, emissions fields, activity patterns and real-time sensor and ...