Urban air pollution is a serious worldwide problem due to its impact on human health. In the
past 60 years, growing evidence established a correlation between exposure to air …

▪ Abstract This paper reviews the available data and models on energy and material flows
through the world's 25 largest cities. Throughput is categorized as stored, transformed, or …

In 1989, the government of Mexico City introduced a program, Hoy No Circula, that bans
most drivers from using their vehicles one weekday per week on the basis of the last digit of …

Exposure to complex mixtures of air pollutants produces infl ammation in the upper and
lower respiratory tract. Because the nasal cavity is a common portal of entry, respiratory and …

Submicron aerosol was analyzed during the MILAGRO field campaign in March 2006 at the
T0 urban supersite in Mexico City with a High-Resolution Time-of-Flight Aerosol Mass …

MILAGRO (Megacity Initiative: Local And Global Research Observations) is an international
collaborative project to examine the behavior and the export of atmospheric emissions from …

Acute, subchronic, or chronic exposures to particulate matter (PM) and pollutant gases affect
people in urban areas and those exposed to fires, disasters, and wars. Respiratory tract …

New primary and secondary organic aerosol modules have been added to PMCAMx, a
three dimensional chemical transport model (CTM), for use with the SAPRC99 chemistry …

Air quality progress in the North American megacities of Los Angeles, New York, and Mexico
City is reviewed, compared, and contrasted. Enormous progress made in North America …

An Aerodyne Aerosol Mass Spectrometer (AMS) was deployed at the CENICA Supersite,
during the Mexico City Metropolitan Area field study (MCMA-2003) from 31 March-4 May …