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The city-sized lab in the sky

Mexico City is unique among developing megacities for having a 27-year time series of detailed air-quality data. Anna Petherick asks what other cities can learn from its example.

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Figure 1: The concentration of ozone in Mexico City since 1986.

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Petherick, A. The city-sized lab in the sky. Nature Clim Change 3, 700–701 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1966

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