Table 2.
Descriptive statistics variables for all the climatic and air quality indicators of the LAC cities analyzed. The middle hyphen (−) indicates the data was not available.
| Cities analyzed | Descriptive statistics | Climate indicators |
Air Quality |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Temperature Average (°C) | Temperature Minimum (°C) | Temperature Maximum (°C) | Humidity (%) | Rainfall (mm) | Wind Speed (m/s) | PM2.5 (ug/m3) | PM10 (ug/m3) | NO2 (ppb) | ||
| Mexico City | Minimum | 15.94 | 10.00 | 21.61 | 16.43 | 0.00 | 1.74 | 12.80 | 23.16 | 8.21 |
| Mean | 20.70 | 14.43 | 27.29 | 39.57 | 0.29 | 2.42 | 23.93 | 41.08 | 15.85 | |
| Maximum | 23.06 | 18.00 | 30.00 | 76.52 | 5.08 | 3.53 | 43.31 | 64.05 | 22.65 | |
| Santo Domingo | Minimum | 26.50 | 19.00 | 29.00 | 60.28 | 0.00 | 0.89 | – | – | – |
| Mean | 29.67 | 24.62 | 32.59 | 68.48 | 0.22 | 2.86 | – | – | – | |
| Maximum | 31.50 | 27.00 | 35.00 | 82.05 | 6.10 | 4.34 | – | – | – | |
| San Juan | Minimum | 26.28 | 22.11 | 28.72 | 44.80 | 0.00 | 0.00 | – | – | 8.51 |
| Mean | 28.78 | 25.12 | 32.40 | 73.09 | 2.44 | 5.33 | – | – | 10.77 | |
| Maximum | 30.67 | 27.00 | 35.11 | 89.90 | 42.16 | 11.18 | – | – | 12.29 | |
| Bogota | Minimum | 13.00 | 5.40 | 13.00 | 59.00 | 0.00 | 0.70 | 1.10 | 3.71 | 3.10 |
| Mean | 15.57 | 10.65 | 21.79 | 67.57 | 1.73 | 1.24 | 11.79 | 12.49 | 8.52 | |
| Maximum | 17.29 | 13.10 | 26.00 | 85.00 | 11.00 | 1.80 | 38.50 | 31.33 | 18.40 | |
| Guayaquil | Minimum | 25.54 | 21.39 | 27.85 | 60.14 | 0.00 | 0.83 | – | – | – |
| Mean | 28.05 | 23.91 | 31.76 | 75.22 | 2.51 | 2.50 | – | – | – | |
| Maximum | 30.57 | 27.00 | 35.00 | 89.00 | 66.20 | 4.27 | – | – | – | |
| Manaus | Minimum | 24.97 | 22.20 | 26.00 | 73.75 | 0.00 | 0.76 | – | – | – |
| Mean | 26.95 | 24.21 | 31.53 | 81.32 | 9.96 | 1.18 | – | – | – | |
| Maximum | 28.90 | 25.70 | 33.70 | 90.96 | 172.80 | 1.79 | – | – | – | |
| Lima | Minimum | 16.91 | 15.60 | 18.60 | 68.13 | 0.00 | 1.43 | – | – | – |
| Mean | 20.43 | 18.37 | 23.77 | 80.62 | 0.00 | 2.16 | – | – | – | |
| Maximum | 24.29 | 21.10 | 28.40 | 88.21 | 0.00 | 2.82 | – | – | – | |
| São Paulo | Minimum | 13.72 | 9.60 | 16.38 | 46.63 | 0.00 | 0.86 | 5.13 | 8.88 | 5.56 |
| Mean | 18.77 | 14.84 | 24.70 | 70.45 | 0.30 | 1.77 | 15.30 | 29.18 | 16.03 | |
| Maximum | 24.07 | 20.28 | 30.80 | 88.54 | 6.60 | 4.04 | 42.16 | 72.78 | 32.63 | |
| Santiago | Minimum | 9.59 | 4.64 | 11.18 | 31.40 | 0.00 | 0.37 | 7.00 | 27.00 | 3.38 |
| Mean | 15.66 | 10.08 | 22.99 | 56.58 | 0.07 | 0.58 | 26.62 | 69.84 | 6.86 | |
| Maximum | 21.70 | 14.27 | 33.15 | 91.17 | 2.00 | 0.91 | 48.04 | 108.00 | 12.13 | |
| Buenos Aires | Minimum | 10.06 | 7.00 | 15.39 | 48.25 | 0.00 | 1.08 | – | 7.33 | 4.35 |
| Mean | 16.55 | 13.05 | 20.68 | 73.74 | 1.45 | 3.12 | – | 16.37 | 16.81 | |
| Maximum | 21.63 | 19.70 | 27.28 | 92.68 | 34.04 | 7.11 | – | 38.82 | 32.23 | |