FAIRMODE - Forum for Air Quality Modeling

FAIRMODE brings together air quality modelers and users to promote and support the harmonized use of models by EU Member States to support the European Air Quality Directives.

FAIRMODE guidance documents

Page | Last updated: 13 May 2026

FAIRMODE Forum for Air Quality Modelling

FAIRMODE WGs produces guidance documents. Guidance documents represent the fourth step in the FAIRMODE implementation plan (after benchmarking, best practices and capacity building. Based on the experience from these three steps, we elaborate first recommendations on which approaches are better suited for different applications and then general guidance documents or publications.

Below a list of the current available guidance documents:

on source apportionment (WG1, published in 2022)
on QA/QC for models used for assessment (WG2, published in 2026)
on QA/QC for models used for forecasting (WG3, published in 2026)
on microscale air quality modelling for regulatory purposes (WG4, published in 2026)
on planning (WG5, published in 2022)
on spatial representativeness (WG8, published in 2026)

Originally Published \| Last Updated	22 Oct 2025 \| 13 May 2026
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