TFMM 2026 in Bled: Advances in Air Pollution Measurement and Modelling / 6.05.2026

The Meteorological Synthesizing Centre – East (MSC-E), together with the Department of Environmental Sciences (O2), hosted the 27th annual meeting of the Task Force on Measurements and Modelling (TFMM), which took place in Bled, Slovenia, from 28-29 April 2026.

TFMM is a scientific forum under the European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (EMEP), serving to discuss and evaluate scientific and operational activities under the UNECE Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution, with a focus on air pollution assessment in Europe. This year’s key topics included aerosol chemical speciation (including secondary aerosols, condensables and CECs), the contribution of VOCs to ozone pollution in Europe, source apportionment modelling applications, and the role of natural sources in the long-range transport of air pollution.

The Head of the O2 Department (prof. dr. Milena Horvat) and the MSC-E team (dr. Oleg Travnikov, dr. Isabel Garcia Arevalo, dr. Reza Gholizadeh, mag. Mikhail Kleimenov, dr. Viktória Koncz) actively contributed to the meeting by engaging in discussions on current research topics and future priorities. MSC-E also presented an overview of its ongoing research and development activities, highlighting several areas: the multi-model study of mercury pollution, the downscaling of PAH pollution assessments for Slovenia, the use of moss biomonitoring for model evaluation, the impact of wildfires on dioxin pollution, trends in marine pollution in the Baltic Sea and the North-East Atlantic Ocean, and source attribution modelling of PAH pollution in the Arctic.