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Descripción
As in many other countries, Mexico needs to develop the capacity to model air quality for various diagnostic and forecasting applications. These two applications categories have common challenges and needs specific to one or the other. Both require being able to evaluate the model performance in terms of the maximum pollutants values and their hourly profiles. This requires comparisons against observations.
Another challenge is that the high spatial and temporal resolution emissions model, which is derived from the emissions inventory, must also be evaluated against measurements and this is seldom done in Mexico and when done, the results do not always find their way to those who carry out inventories for their improvement.
A major challenge is to develop and sustain modeling capability in its two general applications, both in terms of personnel and modeling infrastructure.
Here, national capacities and opportunities are discussed to face these challenges in Mexico.
