1 May 2013airTEXT forecasts updated implementation of UK Daily Air Quality Index (DAQI)

The airTEXT forecast service for London has been updated in keeping with the updated implementation of the UK Daily Air Quality Index (DAQI). On 24 April Defra published minor changes to the index to bring it fully into line with EU Limit Value concentrations. The airTEXT forecasts have been updated today to take account of these changes. For more information on the DAQI changes see the Defra report which is available on the UK-AIR Library.

25 Apr 2013ADMS 5 Service Pack 1 now available, advanced features include impact of wind tubines on dispersion

We are pleased to announce that ADMS 5 Service Pack 1 has been released. This service pack contains additional advanced features including impact of wind turbines on dispersion that were not available in the original ADMS 5 release. In general there will be no significant change in model results between the initial release of ADMS 5 and ADMS 5 SP1. Any exceptions to this are noted in the What's New document. Users who have a valid support contract will receive a download link for the latest upgrade within the next few days.

For more information about the new features of ADMS 5 SP1, please refer to the What's New in ADMS 5 document for details.

9 Jan 2013Emergency response model ADMS-STAR now available

We are pleased to announce that ADMS-STAR is now available. For more information about the model please visit the ADMS-STAR page for more details.

5 Dec 2012ADMS 5 now available

We are pleased to announce that ADMS 5.0 has been released. Users who have a valid support contract will receive a download link for the latest upgrade and a licence file within the next few days.

For more information about the new features of ADMS 5, please refer to the What's New in ADMS 5 document for details.

19 Nov 2012Upgrade to ADMS-Urban, ADMS-Roads and ADMS-Airport now available with the new EFT version 5.1.3

The Emission Factor Toolkit (EFT) version 5.1.3 includes updated NOx emission factors and new fleet data predictions. These emission factors have been included in the version 3.1.4 upgrade to ADMS-Urban, ADMS-Roads and ADMS-Airport. New seven and eight vehicle category datasets are now available. These have distinct categorisations for rigid and articulated heavy goods vehicles (HGVs), and for the latter dataset, the cars have been categorised according to fuel type i.e. petrol and diesel; the two and six vehicle category datasets have also been updated. All new datasets have different factors for London, England (not London), Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

All ADMS-Urban, ADMS-Roads, ADMS-Roads Extra and ADMS-Airport users with current support contracts are entitled to receive this upgrade.