New Delhi: Delhi’s air pollution forecasting system could accurately predict only five out of 14 severe air quality days in the winter of 2024-2025, according to a new report by the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), a non-profit research organisation. The study, titled How Well can Delhi Predict Air Quality? and released Wednesday, looked at Delhi pollution days anticipation mechanism in anticipation of the pollution days in the coming months.

The Central Pollution Control Board and its sensors are responsible for measuring pollution and smog levels in India. However, back in 2018, the Union Ministry of Earth Sciences had come out with the Air Quality Early Warning System (AQEWS) and Decision Support System (DSS), which used historical air quality data, wind speed

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