To better assess the impact of pollution produced by large conurbations, a monitoring campaign is being organized in the Paris area during the whole month of July. Coordinated by two laboratories belonging to INSU-CNRS and carried out as part of the European MEGAPOLI project, the campaign will mobilize around twenty teams from France and other European countries. The number of instruments used and their innovative nature make this campaign the largest ever carried out in Europe aimed at studying particulate pollution in the urban environment. A wide range of methods will be used, including ground-based observations at permanent sites or from mobile platforms, airborne observations from French research aircraft, etc. A second field campaign is planned for the winter of 2009/2010.

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