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New Delhi: air-quality warning system cuts peak pollution

  1. Sachin D. Ghude

    1. Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India. Ministry of Earth Sciences, New Delhi, India.

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  2. Rajesh Kumar

    1. National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA.

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  3. Gaurav Govardhan

    1. Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India. Ministry of Earth Sciences, New Delhi, India.

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  4. Chinmay Jena

    1. India Meteorology Department, Delhi, India. Ministry of Earth Science, New Delhi, India.

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  5. Ravi S. Nanjundiah

    1. Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India.

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  6. M. Rajeevan

    1. Ministry of Earth Sciences, Delhi, India.

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A sophisticated early-warning and decision-support system is minimizing air-pollution events in and around the Indian capital of New Delhi. This system helped to cut the city’s pollution peak last November by 18–22%.

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Nature 602, 211 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00332-y

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