LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
| a. s. | joint-stock company |
| ACTRIS | Aerosols, Clouds, and Trace gases Research Infrastructure Network |
| AIM | automated air pollution monitoring |
| AMS | automated monitoring station AOT40 Accumulated Ozone Exposure over a Threshold of 40 ppb |
| ASKPCR | Association of the Glass and Ceramic Industry of the Czech Republic |
| ATEM | Studio of Ecological Models |
| BaP | benzo[a]pyrene |
| CAMx | Comprehensive Air Quality Model with Extensions |
| CDV | Transport Research Centre |
| CENIA | Czech Environmental Information Agency CEZ Czech Energetic Works |
| CFC | chlorofluorocarbon |
| CHKO | protected landscape area |
| CHMI | Czech Hydrometeorological Institute CLRTAP Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution |
| Coll. | Collection of Laws |
| COP | Conference of the Parties |
| COSMC | Czech Office for Surveying, Mapping and Cadastre |
| CR | Czech Republic |
| CSO | Czech Statistical Office |
| ČAPPO | Czech Association of Petroleum Industry and Trade |
| ČGS | Czech Geological Survey |
| EC | European Community |
| EC | elemental carbon |
| EC | European Commission |
| EEA | European Environment Agency |
| EIG | Emission Inventory Guidebook |
| EMEP | Co-operative Programme for Monitoring and Evaluation of the Long Range Transmission of Air Pollutants in Europe |
| EoI | Council Decision 97/101/EC on exchange of information |
| ETC/ACM | European Topic Centre for Air pollution and Climate change Mitigation |
| ETS | Emission Trading Scheme |
| EU | European Union |
| EUSAAR | European Supersites for Atmospheric Aerosol Research |
| GIS | Geographic Information System HBÚ AV ČR Hydrobiological Institute of Academy of Sciences of the CR |
| HCFC | hydrochlorofluorocarbons |
| HFC | hydrofluorocarbons |
| IARC | International Agency for Research on Cancer IDW Inverse Distance Weighing |
| IIS | Internal Information System |
| ISKO | Air Quality Information System |
| KP | Kyoto Protocol |
| LAT | lower assessment threshold |
| LCP | large combustion sources |
| LfUL | Saxon State Office for the Environment Agriculture and Geology |
| LULUCF | Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry |
| LV | limit value |
| MIM | manual monitoring stations |
| MŽP | Ministry of the Environment |
| NFR | Nomenclature for Reporting Codes |
| NILU | Norwegian Institute for Air Research |
| NMVOC | non-methane volatile organic compounds |
| NP | national park |
| O/K/F-M | Ostrava/Karviná/Frýdek-Místek |
| OBK | Košetice Observatory |
| OC | organic carbon |
| OZKO | areas with deteriorated air quality |
| p.r.i. | public research institution |
| PAH | polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons |
| PFC | perfluorocarbons |
| PM10 | particulate matter fraction < 10 μm |
| PM2.5 | particulate matter fraction < 2.5 μm |
| POP | persistent organic pollutants |
| PVK | Prague Water Supply and Sewerage company |
| REZZO | Register of Emissions and Air Pollution Sources |
| SIS | National Air Pollution Network |
| SLDB | census |
| SM | statutory city |
| SPE | summary operational records |
| SVRS | Smog Warning and Regulatory System |
| SYMOS | System for Modelling of Stationary Sources |
| SZÚ | National Institute of Public Health |
| TC | total carbon |
| TSP | total suspended particles |
| UAT | upper assessment threshold |
| ÚČOV | Central Waste Water Treatment Plant |
| UN | United Nations |
| UN-ECE | United Nations Economic Commission for Europe |
| VEC VŠB | Energy Research Center at Technical University of Ostrava |
| VI | ventilation index |
| VOC | volatile organic compounds |
| VÚLHM | Forest Management and Gamekeeping Research Institute |
| VÚV | Water Management Research Institute TGM |
| VÚZT | Research Institute of Agricultural Technology |
| WHO | World Health Organization |
| ZABAGED | Fundamental Base of Geographic Data of the Czech Republic |
| ZÚ | Health Institute |