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AN: A13E-04 INVITED     [Abstracts]
TI: Policy Implications of Air Quality Research
AU: * Sheinbaum, C
EM: csheinbaum@sma.df.gob.mx
AF: Secretary of Environment, Government of the Federal District, Plaza de la Constituci¢n No. 1, Piso 3, Col. Centro Hist¢rico, Del. Cuauhtemoc, Mexico City, 06068 Mexico
AB: While an integrated assessment approach will be required to achieve and sustain improvements in the air quality of Mexico City Metropolitan Area's (MCMA), policy strategies must be based on a solid understanding of the pollutant emissions and atmospheric processes that lead to unacceptable levels of air pollution. The required level of understanding can only be achieved by comprehensive atmospheric measurements followed by a coordinated atmospheric modeling program. The innovative, two-phase atmospheric measurement program, which was a collaborative effort between Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Mexican Metropolitan Environmental Commission, with exploratory measurements in February 2002 and extensive measurements from late March through early May of 2003, was an important step towards meeting these requirements. Although the extensive data sets from the two measurement programs are still being analyzed by the investigators, their preliminary analysis efforts have yielded important insights into the nature and extent of air pollution problem in the MCMA, which in turn will have important policy implications.
DE: 6319 Institutions
DE: 6399 General or miscellaneous
DE: 6615 Legislation and regulation
DE: 6620 Science policy
DE: 0345 Pollution--urban and regional (0305)
SC: Atmospheric Sciences [A]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting