SIM-air Series #64-2025: Reading the air - Data collection

Reading the air: A practical guide to air quality data and its uses (2026)

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SIM-air Series #64-2025: Reading the air - Vertical Profiles

Reading the air: A practical guide to air quality data and its uses (2026)

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SIM-air Series #64-2025: Reading the air - Chemical Nature of Pollutants

Reading the air: A practical guide to air quality data and its uses (2026)

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SIM-air Series #64-2025: Reading the air - Source Apportionment

Reading the air: A practical guide to air quality data and its uses (2026)

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SIM-air Series #64-2025: Reading the air - Extreme Values and Pollution Episodes

Reading the air: A practical guide to air quality data and its uses (2026)

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SIM-air Series #64-2025: Reading the air - Annual Averages

Reading the air: A practical guide to air quality data and its uses (2026)

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SIM-air Series #64-2025: Reading the air - Temporal Trends

Reading the air: A practical guide to air quality data and its uses (2026)

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SIM-air Series #64-2025: Reading the air - Seasonal/Monthly Averages

Reading the air: A practical guide to air quality data and its uses (2026)

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SIM-air Series #64-2025: Reading the air - Daily/Diurnal Averages

Reading the air: A practical guide to air quality data and its uses (2026)

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SIM-air Series #64-2025: Reading the air - Spatial Heterogeneity

Reading the air: A practical guide to air quality data and its uses (2026)

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SIM-air Series #65-2026: Air quality management during the rush to the great indoors

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SIM-air Series #64-2025: Reading the air: A practical guide to air quality data and its uses

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SIM-air Series #61-2025: Five reasons why Delhi’s air pollution problem is complex

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SIM-air Series #63-2025: 40 by 2040: Cost of inaction and delays in reaching Delhi’s air quality target

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SIM-air Series #62-2025: Ten Essential Air Quality Research Areas That Need Support

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SIM-air Series #59-2025: Five institutional reforms needed to support the fight for better air quality in India

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SIM-air Series #56-2025: Fuel Station Survey (FuSS) to profile in-use vehicle characteristics

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SIM-air Series #52-2024: Beginners handbook on assembling air pollution models

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No emission certificate? Bengaluru Transport department collects ₹27 crore in fines

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This is unfortunate because India has one of the weakest PUC programs. Does it mean that the vehicles are visibly so bad that the owners are not willing to get the certificate?

**** SIM-air Series #53-2024: Overhauling India’s pollution under control (PUC) tests for multipurpose emissions information

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Is Delhi’s Air Really "Unfixable"? Comparing the Beijing and Delhi Pollution Curves