Ever-increasing environmental pollution impairs the ecological balance and affects the biosphere. Developing countries like India need to formulate reliable estimates of emissions and their likely environment effects such as global warming. Numerical modeling and simulation is becoming predominantly essential to government, environmental and health agencies. Air quality modeling predicts the manner in which air pollution will affect the surrounding air quality, based on weather, topography and other factors. These complex environmental models require inputs from various sources including meteorological models.

Environmental research is multidisciplinary in nature and involves physicists, chemists, meteorologists, urban planners, GIS experts, health scientists, industrial engineers and computer experts.

In India the use of reliable computer aided models/tools for environmental management is crucial in the development of effective pollution control strategies.

Keeping this in mind, C-DAC and Dept. of Environmental Science, Pune University, jointly organized a "Barnstorming session on Environmental Computing" on May 21, 2002 at C-DAC.

This session aimed at providing computational facility for environment related research and industrial applications. The session presented an opportunity to discuss the computing requirements for this research and provided a forum for fruitful interaction, leading to real life computer based solution for environmental management.

The session was attended by environmental scientists, meteorologists, urban planners, traffic analysts, pollution control authorities and industries. An overview of the state-of-the-art technology in the crucial area of research was given to the participants. Experts from Pune University, Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB), Andhra University, BAIF, CSIR, C-DAC, and others presented and discussed about their research and related issues.

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