Air quality data derived from megacities can lead to significant inaccuracies when applied to US urban centers

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Aug 13, 2025, 11:56 am122 ptsTrending
Researchers at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) have published a paper in Communications Earth & Environment that demonstrates for the first time that using data gathered on atmospheric particles from Chinese megacities to characterize air quality for U.S. urban centers leads to significant…

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