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Air Quality in North America's Most Populous City Atmos. Chem. Phys., 7, 2447–2473, 2007 www.atmos-chem-phys.net/7/2447/2007/ Atmospheric © Author(s) 2007. This work is licensed Chemistry under a Creative Commons License. and Physics Air quality in North America’s most populous city – overview of the MCMA-2003 campaign L. T. Molina1,2, C. E. Kolb3, B. de Foy1,2,4, B. K. Lamb5, W. H. Brune6, J. L. Jimenez7,8, R. Ramos-Villegas9, J. Sarmiento9, V. H. Paramo-Figueroa9, B. Cardenas10, V. Gutierrez-Avedoy10, and M. J. Molina1,11 1Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA 2Molina Center for Energy and Environment, La Jolla, CA, USA 3Aerodyne Research, Inc., Billerica, MA, USA 4Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, USA 5Laboratory for Atmospheric Research, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA 6Department of Meteorology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA 7Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA 8Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences (CIRES), Univ. of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA 9Secretary of Environment, Government of the Federal District, Mexico, DF, Mexico 10National Center for Environmental Research and Training, National Institute of Ecology, Mexico, DF, Mexico 11Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA Received: 22 February 2007 – Published in Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss.: 27 February 2007 Revised: 10 May 2007 – Accepted: 10 May 2007 – Published: 14 May 2007 Abstract. Exploratory field measurements in the Mexico 1 Introduction City Metropolitan Area (MCMA) in February 2002 set the stage for a major air quality field measurement campaign in 1.1 Air pollution in megacities the spring of 2003 (MCMA-2003). Involving over 100 sci- entists from more than 30 institutions in Mexico, the United Degraded air quality in an increasingly urbanized world di- States and Europe, MCMA-2003 revealed important new rectly threatens the health of a large fraction of the world’s insights into the meteorology, primary pollutant emissions, population, impacts the viability of important natural and ambient secondary pollutant precursor concentrations, pho- agricultural ecosystems in regions surrounding highly ur- tochemical oxidant production and secondary aerosol parti- banized areas, and contributes significantly to regional and cle formation in North America’s most populated and pol- global climate change. This challenge is particularly acute in luted megacity. A description of meteorological and atmo- the developing world where the rapid growth of megacities spheric chemistry and aerosol microphysics measurements is producing atmospheric pollution of unprecedented sever- performed during MCMA-2003 is presented. More than 40 ity and extent. There is growing recognition that airborne published or submitted MCMA-2003 research papers are re- emissions from major urban and industrial areas influence viewed and key discoveries pertinent to understanding and both air quality and climate change on scales ranging from improving air quality in Mexico City and similar megacities regional up to continental and global (Decker et al., 2000; in the developing world are summarized. Mayer et al., 2000; Molina and Molina, 2004; Molina et al., 2004). Urban/industrial emissions from the developed world, and increasingly from the megacities (urban centers with popu- lation over 10 millions) of the developing world, change the chemical content of the downwind troposphere in a number Correspondence to: L. T. Molina of fundamental ways (Molina et al., 2004). Emissions of ni- ([email protected]) trogen oxides (NOx), CO and volatile organic compounds Published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union. 2448 L. T. Molina et al.: Overview of the MCMA-2003 campaign ordinated and interdisciplinary manner. The Mexico City Project included active collaboration with Mexican govern- ment officials and decision makers. Although the initial fo- cus of the Integrated Program was on the MCMA, its goal was to develop methods of integrated assessment applicable to other large urban centers throughout the world (Molina and Molina, 2002). 1.2 Air quality in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area Mexico City exhibits the types of environmental problems experienced by megacities around the world and faces the common obstacles to solving them. Air pollution in megaci- ties is strongly influenced by many factors, including topog- Figures Captions raphy, meteorology, industrial growth, transportation needs, and expanding populations. The Mexico City Metropolitan ◦ 0 ◦ 0 Area (19 25 N Latitude and 99 10 W Longitude) lies in an Figures Captions Figures Captions Figure 1. Topographical mapelevated of the basin MCMA at an altitude showing of 2240 the m monitoring above mean seasites level. during MCMA 2 Fig. 1. Topographical map of the MCMA2002/2003 showing campaign: theFigure monitoring 1. 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Arrows colored by time of day: early morning (0-5) in blue, morning (6-11) in huge increases in population and urbanized area as it at- red, afternoon (12-17) in brown(VOCs) and evening drive (18-23) the formationin yellow. Plateau of photochemical winds on O3-South smog days and its red, afternoon (12-17)combine in brown with and vigorous evening mixing (18-23)associated to transport in yellow. the oxidants, Plateauurban plume winds degrading southwards on O3-Southepisode air of the quality days mountains. types. and A low threateningArrows coloredtracted by migrantstime of from day: other early parts morning of the country (0-5) andin blue, industri- morning (6-11) in combine with vigorouslevel mixing jet forms to transportin the Chalco the passageurban plume causing southwards a convergence of the line mountains. in the red,sout hA of afternoonlow the city. Strong (12-17) in brownalization and stimulated evening economic (18-23) growth.in yellow. 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