LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

a. s. joint-stock company
AA atmospheric aerosols
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
AQI Air Quality Index
AQIS Air Quality Information System
ASCR Academy of Sciences of the Czech republic
ASKPCR Association of the Glass and Ceramic Industry of the Czech Republic
ATEM Studio of Ecological Models
BaP benzo[a]pyrene
BC black carbon
CAMx Comprehensive Air Quality Model with Extensions
CDV Transport Research Centre
CENIA Czech Environmental Information Agency
CEZ Czech Energetic Works
CFC chlorofluorocarbon
CGS Czech Geological Survey
CHMI Czech Hydrometeorological Institute
CLI Central Laboratory of Air Quality
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
EC elemental carbon
EC European Commission
EC European Community
EEA European Environment Agency
EIG Emission Inventory Guidebook
EMEP Co-operative Programme for Monitoring and Evaluation of the Long-Range Transmissions 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
GAW Global Atmosphere Watch
GHG Greenhouse gases
GIS Geographic Information System
GMOS Global Mercury Observation System
HBI ASCR 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
IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
ISPOP Integrated System of the Fulfilment of Notification Obligations
KP Kyoto Protocol
LAT lower assessment threshold
LCP large combustion sources
LfULG Saxon State Office for the Environment Agriculture and Geology
LULUCF Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry
LV limit value
MIM manual air pollution monitoring
MV CR Ministry of the interior of the Czech republic
NAQMN National Air Quality Monitoring Network
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
PLA protected landscape area
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
SLDB census
SMPS Scanning Mobility Particle Sizer
SPE summary operational records
SWRS 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
UFIREG Ultrafine Particles – an evidence based contribution to the development of regional and European environmental and health policy
UN United Nations
UN-ECE United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
VI ventilation index
VOC volatile organic compounds
VŠB-TU Technical University of Ostrava
VÚLHM Forest Management and Gamekeeping Research Institute
VÚZT Research Institute of Agricultural Technology
WHO World Health Organization
ZABAGED Fundamental Base of Geographic Data of the Czech Republic
Health Institute