Megacities air pollution problems: Mexico City Metropolitan Area critical issues on the central nervous system pediatric impact

L Calderón-Garcidueñas, RJ Kulesza, RL Doty… - Environmental …, 2015 - Elsevier
The chronic health effects associated with sustained exposures to high concentrations of air
pollutants are an important issue for millions of megacity residents and millions more living …

Aerosol components derived from global AERONET measurements by GRASP: a new value-added aerosol component global dataset and its application

X Zhang, L Li, H Che, O Dubovik… - Bulletin of the …, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
Aerosols affect Earth's climate both directly and indirectly, which is the largest uncertainty in
the assessment of radiative forcings affecting anthropogenic climate change. The standard …

The impacts of combustion emissions on air quality and climate–From coal to biofuels and beyond

JS Gaffney, NA Marley - Atmospheric Environment, 2009 - Elsevier
Combustion processes have inherent characteristics that lead to the release in the
environment of both gaseous and particulate pollutants that have primary and secondary …

Fast airborne aerosol size and chemistry measurements above Mexico City and Central Mexico during the MILAGRO campaign

PF DeCarlo, EJ Dunlea, JR Kimmel… - Atmospheric …, 2008 - acp.copernicus.org
The concentration, size, and composition of non-refractory submicron aerosol (NR-PM 1)
was measured over Mexico City and central Mexico with a High-Resolution Time-of-Flight …

Trace gas and particle emissions from domestic and industrial biofuel use and garbage burning in central Mexico

TJ Christian, RJ Yokelson, B Cárdenas… - Atmospheric …, 2010 - acp.copernicus.org
In central Mexico during the spring of 2007 we measured the initial emissions of 12 gases
and the aerosol speciation for elemental and organic carbon (EC, OC), anhydrosugars, Cl …

Characterization of ambient aerosols in Mexico City during the MCMA-2003 campaign with Aerosol Mass Spectrometry: results from the CENICA Supersite

D Salcedo, TB Onasch, K Dzepina… - Atmospheric …, 2006 - acp.copernicus.org
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 …

Measurement of ambient aerosols in northern Mexico City by single particle mass spectrometry

RC Moffet, B De Foy, LT Molina… - Atmospheric …, 2008 - acp.copernicus.org
Continuous ambient measurements with aerosol time-of-flight mass spectrometry (ATOFMS)
were made in an industrial/residential section in the northern part of Mexico City as part of …

Source apportionment of fine organic aerosol in Mexico City during the MILAGRO experiment 2006

EA Stone, DC Snyder, RJ Sheesley… - Atmospheric …, 2008 - acp.copernicus.org
Organic carbon (OC) comprises a large fraction of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) in Mexico
City. Daily and select 12-h PM 2.5 samples were collected in urban and peripheral sites in …

Trace gas and particle emissions from open biomass burning in Mexico

RJ Yokelson, IR Burling, SP Urbanski… - Atmospheric …, 2011 - acp.copernicus.org
We report airborne measurements of emission factors (EF) for trace gases and PM 2.5 made
in southern Mexico in March of 2006 on 6 crop residue fires, 3 tropical dry forest fires, 8 …

Elevated plasma endothelin-1 and pulmonary arterial pressure in children exposed to air pollution

L Calderón-Garcidueñas, R Vincent… - Environmental …, 2007 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background Controlled exposures of animals and humans to particulate matter (PM) or
ozone air pollution cause an increase in plasma levels of endothelin-1, a potent …