Welcome to WEISS

WEISS

The WEISS project will above all create a transparent inventory of all water emissions. This inventory can be used for monitoring, reporting and accounting of pollutants and will be able to assess measures aimed at reducing the pollution of water bodies.

The project will be realised in 3 years by carrying out twelve actions. Three development cycles in which the prototype will be refined will result in the final model.

The WEISS model will operate at a high geographical resolution (1 ha grid) and will integrate all relevant emission sources (both diffuse and point), all transport routes, and a planning support module. This will enable accounting for the pollutants in distinctive nodes of the pathways as required for monitoring and reporting (e.g. WFD, E-PRTR, WISE). It will also enable assessment of various technical and policy measures aimed at reducing the pollution loads in the water bodies.

For each source and pollutant, WEISS will proceed in three consecutive steps:

1. spatial allocation of the source,

2. computation of the pathways

3. accounting in distinctive nodes of the pathways.

For every step, specific algorithms that can easily be chained to perform the necessary calculations are developed. This allows the model to be easily extended with new sources, pollutants and pathways.

 News