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Clark SN, Kulka R, Buteau S, Lavigne E, Zhang JJY, Riel-Roberge C, Smargiassi A, Weichenthal S, Van Ryswyk K. High-resolution spatial and spatiotemporal modelling of air pollution using fixed site and mobile monitoring in a Canadian city. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2024; 356:124353. [PMID: 38866318 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2024.124353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2024] [Revised: 05/20/2024] [Accepted: 06/08/2024] [Indexed: 06/14/2024]
Abstract
The development of high-resolution spatial and spatiotemporal models of air pollutants is essential for exposure science and epidemiological applications. While fixed-site sampling has conventionally provided input data for statistical predictive models, the evolving mobile monitoring method offers improved spatial resolution, ideal for measuring pollutants with high spatial variability such as ultrafine particles (UFP). The Quebec Air Pollution Exposure and Epidemiology (QAPEE) study measured and modelled the spatial and spatiotemporal distributions of understudied pollutants, such as UFPs, black carbon (BC), and brown carbon (BrC), along with fine particulate matter (PM2.5), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and ozone (O3) in Quebec City, Canada. We conducted a combined fixed-site (NO2 and O3) and mobile monitoring (PM2.5, BC, BrC, and UFPs) campaign over 10-months. Mobile monitoring routes were monitored on a weekly basis between 8am-10am and designed using location/allocation modelling. Seasonal fixed-site sampling campaigns captured continuous 24-h measurements over two-week periods. Generalized Additive Models (GAMs), which combined data on pollution concentrations with spatial, temporal, and spatiotemporal predictor variables were used to model and predict concentration surfaces. Annual models for PM2.5, NO2, O3 as well as seven of the smallest size fractions in the UFP range, had high out of sample predictive accuracy (range r2: 0.54-0.86). Varying spatial patterns were observed across UFP size ranges measured as Particle Number Counts (PNC). The monthly spatiotemporal models for PM2.5 (r2 = 0.49), BC (r2 = 0.27), BrC (r2 = 0.29), and PNC (r2 = 0.49) had moderate or moderate-low out of sample predictive accuracy. We conducted a sensitivity analysis and found that the minimum number of 'n visits' (mobile monitoring sessions) required to model annually representative air pollution concentrations was between 24 and 32 visits dependent on the pollutant. This study provides a single source of exposure models for a comprehensive set of air pollutants in Quebec City, Canada. These exposure models will feed into epidemiological research on the health impacts of ambient UFPs and other pollutants.
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- Sierra Nicole Clark
- Environmental and Social Epidemiology Section, Population Health Research Institute, St. George's, University of London, London, UK; Air Pollution Exposure Science Section, Water and Air Quality Bureau, Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety Branch, Health Canada, Government of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Air Pollution Exposure Science Section, Water and Air Quality Bureau, Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety Branch, Health Canada, Government of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Institut National de sante publique du Quebec (INSPQ), Quebec, Canada; École de santé publique, Département de santé environnementale et santé au travail, Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada; Centre of Public Health Research, University of Montreal and CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l'Île-de-Montréal, Montreal, Canada
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- Populations Studies Division, Environmental Health Science and Research Bureau, Health Canada, Ottawa, Canada
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- Air Pollution Exposure Science Section, Water and Air Quality Bureau, Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety Branch, Health Canada, Government of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Direction de santé publique, Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux (CIUSSS) de la Capitale-Nationale, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
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- Institut National de sante publique du Quebec (INSPQ), Quebec, Canada; École de santé publique, Département de santé environnementale et santé au travail, Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada; Centre of Public Health Research, University of Montreal and CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l'Île-de-Montréal, Montreal, Canada
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- Air Pollution Exposure Science Section, Water and Air Quality Bureau, Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety Branch, Health Canada, Government of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Air Pollution Exposure Science Section, Water and Air Quality Bureau, Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety Branch, Health Canada, Government of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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Ma X, Zou B, Deng J, Gao J, Longley I, Xiao S, Guo B, Wu Y, Xu T, Xu X, Yang X, Wang X, Tan Z, Wang Y, Morawska L, Salmond J. A comprehensive review of the development of land use regression approaches for modeling spatiotemporal variations of ambient air pollution: A perspective from 2011 to 2023. ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL 2024; 183:108430. [PMID: 38219544 DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2024.108430] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2023] [Revised: 11/26/2023] [Accepted: 01/04/2024] [Indexed: 01/16/2024]
Abstract
Land use regression (LUR) models are widely used in epidemiological and environmental studies to estimate humans' exposure to air pollution within urban areas. However, the early models, developed using linear regressions and data from fixed monitoring stations and passive sampling, were primarily designed to model traditional and criteria air pollutants and had limitations in capturing high-resolution spatiotemporal variations of air pollution. Over the past decade, there has been a notable development of multi-source observations from low-cost monitors, mobile monitoring, and satellites, in conjunction with the integration of advanced statistical methods and spatially and temporally dynamic predictors, which have facilitated significant expansion and advancement of LUR approaches. This paper reviews and synthesizes the recent advances in LUR approaches from the perspectives of the changes in air quality data acquisition, novel predictor variables, advances in model-developing approaches, improvements in validation methods, model transferability, and modeling software as reported in 155 LUR studies published between 2011 and 2023. We demonstrate that these developments have enabled LUR models to be developed for larger study areas and encompass a wider range of criteria and unregulated air pollutants. LUR models in the conventional spatial structure have been complemented by more complex spatiotemporal structures. Compared with linear models, advanced statistical methods yield better predictions when handling data with complex relationships and interactions. Finally, this study explores new developments, identifies potential pathways for further breakthroughs in LUR methodologies, and proposes future research directions. In this context, LUR approaches have the potential to make a significant contribution to future efforts to model the patterns of long- and short-term exposure of urban populations to air pollution.
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- Xuying Ma
- College of Geomatics, Xi'an University of Science and Technology, Xi'an 710054, China; College of Safety Science and Engineering, Xi'an University of Science and Technology, Xi'an 710054, China; International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland 4000, Australia.
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- School of Geosciences and Info-Physics, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410083, China.
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- College of Safety Science and Engineering, Xi'an University of Science and Technology, Xi'an 710054, China; Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control of Coal Fire, Xi'an University of Science and Technology, Xi'an 710054, China
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- School of Environment, Faculty of Science, University of Auckland, Auckland 1010, New Zealand
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- National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Auckland 1010, New Zealand
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- School of Geography and Tourism, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710119, China
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- College of Geomatics, Xi'an University of Science and Technology, Xi'an 710054, China
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- College of Geomatics, Xi'an University of Science and Technology, Xi'an 710054, China
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- School of Software Engineering, Chongqing University of Post and Telecommunications, Chongqing 400065, China
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- Xi'an Institute for Innovative Earth Environment Research, Xi'an 710061, China
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- Shandong Nova Fitness Co., Ltd., Baoji, Shaanxi 722404, China
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- College of Geomatics, Xi'an University of Science and Technology, Xi'an 710054, China
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- College of Geomatics, Xi'an University of Science and Technology, Xi'an 710054, China
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- College of Geomatics, Xi'an University of Science and Technology, Xi'an 710054, China
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- International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland 4000, Australia.
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- School of Environment, Faculty of Science, University of Auckland, Auckland 1010, New Zealand
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Kerckhoffs J, Hoek G, Vermeulen R. Mobile monitoring of air pollutants; performance evaluation of a mixed-model land use regression framework in relation to the number of drive days. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2024; 240:117457. [PMID: 37865326 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.117457] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2023] [Revised: 09/29/2023] [Accepted: 10/18/2023] [Indexed: 10/23/2023]
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We used black carbon data from a mobile monitoring campaign in Oakland, USA measuring street segments up to 40 times and compared a data-only, LUR model and mixed-model approach with a long-term average, represented by the average concentration based on 40 drive days on that street segment. The mixed model outperformed the data-only and LUR model estimates, with 80% explained variance after 5 drive days and 90% after 14 drive days. The data-only approach needed 8 and 15 to achieve an explained variance of 80% and 90%, respectively, The LUR model never achieved an explained variance higher than 70%. The mixed model is a scalable approach, as it can be used before all street segments in a domain are measured by developing a LUR model and adds information with increasing repeats per street segment.
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- Jules Kerckhoffs
- Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
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- Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands; Julius Centre for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Centre, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands
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Lloyd M, Ganji A, Xu J, Venuta A, Simon L, Zhang M, Saeedi M, Yamanouchi S, Apte J, Hong K, Hatzopoulou M, Weichenthal S. Predicting spatial variations in annual average outdoor ultrafine particle concentrations in Montreal and Toronto, Canada: Integrating land use regression and deep learning models. ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL 2023; 178:108106. [PMID: 37544265 DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2023.108106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2023] [Revised: 06/28/2023] [Accepted: 07/19/2023] [Indexed: 08/08/2023]
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BACKGROUND Concentrations of outdoor ultrafine particles (UFP; <0.1 µm) and black carbon (BC) can vary greatly within cities and long-term exposures to these pollutants have been associated with a variety of adverse health outcomes. OBJECTIVE This study integrated multiple approaches to develop new models to estimate within-city spatial variations in annual median (i.e. average) outdoor UFP and BC concentrations as well as mean UFP size in Canada's two largest cities, Montreal and Toronto. METHODS We conducted year-long mobile monitoring campaigns in each city that included evenings and weekends. We developed generalized additive models trained on land use parameters and deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models trained on satellite-view images. Using predictions from these models, we developed final combined models. RESULTS In Toronto, the median observed UFP concentration, UFP size, and BC concentration values were 16,172pt/cm3, 33.7 nm, and 1225 ng/m3, respectively. In Montreal, the median observed UFP concentration, UFP size, and BC concentration values were 14,702pt/cm3, 29.7 nm, and 1060 ng/m3, respectively. For all pollutants in both cities, the proportion of spatial variation explained (i.e., R2) was slightly greater (1-2 percentage points) for the combined models than the generalized additive models and a greater (approximately 10 percentage points) than the deep CNN models. The Toronto combined model R2 values in the test set were 0.73, 0.55, and 0.61 for UFP concentrations, UFP size, and BC concentration, respectively. The Montreal combined model R2 values were 0.60, 0.49, and 0.60 for UFP concentration, UFP size, and BC concentration models respectively. For each pollutant, predictions from the combined, deep CNN, and generalized additive models were highly correlated with each other and differences between models were explored in sensitivity analyses. CONCLUSION Predictions from these models are available to support future epidemiological research examining long-term health impacts of outdoor UFPs and BC.
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- Marshall Lloyd
- Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Québec H3A 1G1, Canada.
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- Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A4, Canada.
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- Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A4, Canada.
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- Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Québec H3A 1G1, Canada.
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- Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Québec H3A 1G1, Canada.
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- Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A4, Canada.
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- Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A4, Canada.
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- Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A4, Canada.
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States; School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States.
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- Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Québec H3A 1G1, Canada.
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- Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A4, Canada.
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- Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Québec H3A 1G1, Canada.
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Doubleday A, Blanco MN, Austin E, Marshall JD, Larson TV, Sheppard L. Characterizing Ultrafine Particle Mobile Monitoring Data for Epidemiology. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2023; 57:9538-9547. [PMID: 37326603 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.3c00800] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Mobile monitoring is increasingly used to assess exposure to traffic-related air pollutants (TRAPs), including ultrafine particles (UFPs). Due to the rapid spatial decrease in the concentration of UFPs and other TRAPs with distance from roadways, mobile measurements may be non-representative of residential exposures, which are commonly used for epidemiologic studies. Our goal was to develop, apply, and test one possible approach for using mobile measurements in exposure assessment for epidemiology. We used an absolute principal component score model to adjust the contribution of on-road sources in mobile measurements to provide exposure predictions representative of cohort locations. We then compared UFP predictions at residential locations from mobile on-road plume-adjusted versus stationary measurements to understand the contribution of mobile measurements and characterize their differences. We found that predictions from mobile measurements are more representative of cohort locations after down-weighting the contribution of localized on-road plumes. Further, predictions at cohort locations derived from mobile measurements incorporate more spatial variation compared to those from short-term stationary data. Sensitivity analyses suggest that this additional spatial information captures features in the exposure surface not identified from the stationary data alone. We recommend the correction of mobile measurements to create exposure predictions representative of residential exposure for epidemiology.
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- Annie Doubleday
- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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- Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
- Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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Bramble K, Blanco MN, Doubleday A, Gassett AJ, Hajat A, Marshall JD, Sheppard L. Exposure Disparities by Income, Race and Ethnicity, and Historic Redlining Grade in the Greater Seattle Area for Ultrafine Particles and Other Air Pollutants. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES 2023; 131:77004. [PMID: 37404015 PMCID: PMC10321236 DOI: 10.1289/ehp11662] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2022] [Revised: 05/15/2023] [Accepted: 06/01/2023] [Indexed: 07/06/2023]
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BACKGROUND Growing evidence shows ultrafine particles (UFPs) are detrimental to cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, and respiratory health. Historically, racialized and low-income communities are exposed to higher concentrations of air pollution. OBJECTIVES Our aim was to conduct a descriptive analysis of present-day air pollution exposure disparities in the greater Seattle, Washington, area by income, race, ethnicity, and historical redlining grade. We focused on UFPs (particle number count) and compared with black carbon, nitrogen dioxide, and fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) levels. METHODS We obtained race and ethnicity data from the 2010 U.S. Census, median household income data from the 2006-2010 American Community Survey, and Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) redlining data from the University of Richmond's Mapping Inequality. We predicted pollutant concentrations at block centroids from 2019 mobile monitoring data. The study region encompassed much of urban Seattle, with redlining analyses restricted to a smaller region. To analyze disparities, we calculated population-weighted mean exposures and regression analyses using a generalized estimating equation model to account for spatial correlation. RESULTS Pollutant concentrations and disparities were largest for blocks with median household income of < $ 20,000 , Black residents, HOLC Grade D, and ungraded industrial areas. UFP concentrations were 4% lower than average for non-Hispanic White residents and higher than average for racialized groups (Asian, 3%; Black, 15%; Hispanic, 6%; Native American, 8%; Pacific Islander, 11%). For blocks with median household incomes of < $ 20,000 , UFP concentrations were 40% higher than average, whereas blocks with incomes of > $ 110,000 had UFP concentrations 16% lower than average. UFP concentrations were 28% higher for Grade D and 49% higher for ungraded industrial areas compared with Grade A. Disparities were highest for UFPs and lowest for PM 2.5 exposure levels. DISCUSSION Our study is one of the first to highlight large disparities with UFP exposures compared with multiple pollutants. Higher exposures to multiple air pollutants and their cumulative effects disproportionately impact historically marginalized groups. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP11662.
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- Kaya Bramble
- Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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Blanco MN, Doubleday A, Austin E, Marshall JD, Seto E, Larson TV, Sheppard L. Design and evaluation of short-term monitoring campaigns for long-term air pollution exposure assessment. JOURNAL OF EXPOSURE SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY 2023; 33:465-473. [PMID: 36045136 PMCID: PMC9971335 DOI: 10.1038/s41370-022-00470-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2021] [Revised: 08/12/2022] [Accepted: 08/15/2022] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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BACKGROUND Short-term mobile monitoring campaigns to estimate long-term air pollution levels are becoming increasingly common. Still, many campaigns have not conducted temporally-balanced sampling, and few have looked at the implications of such study designs for epidemiologic exposure assessment. OBJECTIVE We carried out a simulation study using fixed-site air quality monitors to better understand how different short-term monitoring designs impact the resulting exposure surfaces. METHODS We used Monte Carlo resampling to simulate three archetypal short-term monitoring sampling designs using oxides of nitrogen (NOx) monitoring data from 69 regulatory sites in California: a year-around Balanced Design that sampled during all seasons of the year, days of the week, and all or various hours of the day; a temporally reduced Rush Hours Design; and a temporally reduced Business Hours Design. We evaluated the performance of each design's land use regression prediction model. RESULTS The Balanced Design consistently yielded the most accurate annual averages; while the reduced Rush Hours and Business Hours Designs generally produced more biased results. SIGNIFICANCE A temporally-balanced sampling design is crucial for short-term campaigns such as mobile monitoring aiming to assess long-term exposure in epidemiologic cohorts. IMPACT STATEMENT Short-term monitoring campaigns to assess long-term air pollution trends are increasingly common, though they rarely conduct temporally balanced sampling. We show that this approach produces biased annual average exposure estimates that can be improved by collecting temporally-balanced samples.
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- Magali N Blanco
- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, 3980 15th Ave NE, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA.
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, 3980 15th Ave NE, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, 3980 15th Ave NE, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
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- Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Washington, 201 More Hall, Box 352700, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, 3980 15th Ave NE, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, 3980 15th Ave NE, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
- Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Washington, 201 More Hall, Box 352700, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, 3980 15th Ave NE, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA.
- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, 3980 15th Ave NE, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA.
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Kim SY, Blanco MN, Bi J, Larson TV, Sheppard L. Exposure assessment for air pollution epidemiology: A scoping review of emerging monitoring platforms and designs. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2023; 223:115451. [PMID: 36764437 PMCID: PMC9992293 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.115451] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2022] [Revised: 01/10/2023] [Accepted: 02/07/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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BACKGROUND Both exposure monitoring and exposure prediction have played key roles in assessing individual-level long-term exposure to air pollutants and their associations with human health. While there have been notable advances in exposure prediction methods, improvements in monitoring designs are also necessary, particularly given new monitoring paradigms leveraging low-cost sensors and mobile platforms. OBJECTIVES We aim to provide a conceptual summary of novel monitoring designs for air pollution cohort studies that leverage new paradigms and technologies, to investigate their characteristics in real-world examples, and to offer practical guidance to future studies. METHODS We propose a conceptual summary that focuses on two overarching types of monitoring designs, mobile and non-mobile, as well as their subtypes. We define mobile designs as monitoring from a moving platform, and non-mobile designs as stationary monitoring from permanent or temporary locations. We only consider non-mobile studies with cost-effective sampling devices. Then we discuss similarities and differences across previous studies with respect to spatial and temporal representation, data comparability between design classes, and the data leveraged for model development. Finally, we provide specific suggestions for future monitoring designs. RESULTS Most mobile and non-mobile monitoring studies selected monitoring sites based on land use instead of residential locations, and deployed monitors over limited time periods. Some studies applied multiple design and/or sub-design classes to the same area, time period, or instrumentation, to allow comparison. Even fewer studies leveraged monitoring data from different designs to improve exposure assessment by capitalizing on different strengths. In order to maximize the benefit of new monitoring technologies, future studies should adopt monitoring designs that prioritize residence-based site selection with comprehensive temporal coverage and leverage data from different designs for model development in the presence of good data compatibility. DISCUSSION Our conceptual overview provides practical guidance on novel exposure assessment monitoring for epidemiological applications.
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- Sun-Young Kim
- Department of Cancer AI and Digital Health, Graduate School of Cancer Science and Policy, National Cancer Center, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea; Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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Blanco MN, Bi J, Austin E, Larson TV, Marshall JD, Sheppard L. Impact of Mobile Monitoring Network Design on Air Pollution Exposure Assessment Models. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2023; 57:440-450. [PMID: 36508743 PMCID: PMC10615227 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.2c05338] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Short-term mobile monitoring campaigns are increasingly used to assess long-term air pollution exposure in epidemiology. Little is known about how monitoring network design features, including the number of stops and sampling temporality, impacts exposure assessment models. We address this gap by leveraging an extensive mobile monitoring campaign conducted in the greater Seattle area over the course of a year during all days of the week and most hours. The campaign measured total particle number concentration (PNC; sheds light on ultrafine particulate (UFP) number concentration), black carbon (BC), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), fine particulate matter (PM2.5), and carbon dioxide (CO2). In Monte Carlo sampling of 7327 total stops (278 sites × 26 visits each), we restricted the number of sites and visits used to estimate annual averages. Predictions from the all-data campaign performed well, with cross-validated R2s of 0.51-0.77. We found similar model performances (85% of the all-data campaign R2) with ∼1000 to 3000 randomly selected stops for NO2, PNC, and BC, and ∼4000 to 5000 stops for PM2.5 and CO2. Campaigns with additional temporal restrictions (e.g., business hours, rush hours, weekdays, or fewer seasons) had reduced model performances and different spatial surfaces. Mobile monitoring campaigns wanting to assess long-term exposure should carefully consider their monitoring designs.
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- Magali N Blanco
- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, University of Washington, 3980 15th Avenue NE, Seattle, Washington98195, United States
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, University of Washington, 3980 15th Avenue NE, Seattle, Washington98195, United States
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, University of Washington, 3980 15th Avenue NE, Seattle, Washington98195, United States
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, University of Washington, 3980 15th Avenue NE, Seattle, Washington98195, United States
- Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Washington, 201 More Hall, Box 352700, Seattle, Washington98195, United States
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- Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Washington, 201 More Hall, Box 352700, Seattle, Washington98195, United States
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, University of Washington, 3980 15th Avenue NE, Seattle, Washington98195, United States
- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, University of Washington, 3980 15th Avenue NE, Seattle, Washington98195, United States
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Kerckhoffs J, Khan J, Hoek G, Yuan Z, Hertel O, Ketzel M, Jensen SS, Al Hasan F, Meliefste K, Vermeulen R. Hyperlocal variation of nitrogen dioxide, black carbon, and ultrafine particles measured with Google Street View cars in Amsterdam and Copenhagen. ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL 2022; 170:107575. [PMID: 36306551 DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2022.107575] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2022] [Revised: 10/03/2022] [Accepted: 10/07/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Hyperlocal air quality maps are becoming increasingly common, as they provide useful insights into the spatial variation and sources of air pollutants. In this study, we produced several high-resolution concentration maps to assess the spatial differences of three traffic-related pollutants, Nitrogen dioxide (NO2), Black Carbon (BC) and Ultrafine Particles (UFP), in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and Copenhagen, Denmark. All maps were based on a mixed-effect model approach by using state-of-the-art mobile measurements conducted by Google Street View (GSV) cars, during October 2018 - March 2020, and Land-use Regression (LUR) models based on several land-use and traffic predictor variables. We then explored the concentration ratio between the different normalised pollutants to understand possible contributing sources to the observed hyperlocal variations. The maps developed in this work reflect, (i) expected elevated pollution concentrations along busy roads, and (ii) similar concentration patterns on specific road types, e.g., motorways, for both cities. In the ratio maps, we observed a clear pattern of elevated concentrations of UFP near the airport in both cities, compared to BC and NO2. This is the first study to produce hyperlocal maps for BC and UFP using high-quality mobile measurements. These maps are important for policymakers and health-effect studies, trying to disentangle individual effects of key air pollutants of interest (e.g., UFP).
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- Jules Kerckhoffs
- Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
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- Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark; Danish Big Data Centre for Environment and Health (BERTHA), Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Ecoscience, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark; Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE), University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom
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- Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands; Julius Centre for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Centre, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands
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Saha PK, Presto AA, Hankey S, Murphy BN, Allen C, Zhang W, Marshall JD, Robinson AL. National Exposure Models for Source-Specific Primary Particulate Matter Concentrations Using Aerosol Mass Spectrometry Data. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2022; 56:14284-14295. [PMID: 36153982 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.2c03398] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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This paper investigates the feasibility of developing national empirical models to predict ambient concentrations of sparsely monitored air pollutants at high spatial resolution. We used a data set of cooking organic aerosol (COA) and hydrocarbon-like organic aerosol (HOA; traffic primary organic PM) measured using aerosol mass spectrometry across the continental United States. The monitoring locations were selected to span the national distribution of land-use and source-activity variables commonly used for land-use regression modeling (e.g., road length, restaurant count, etc.). The models explain about 60% of the spatial variability of the measured data (R2 0.63 for the COA model and 0.62 for the HOA model). Extensive cross-validation suggests that the models are robust with reasonable transferability. The models predict large urban-rural and intra-urban variability with hotspots in urban areas and along the road corridors. The predicted national concentration surfaces show reasonable spatial correlation with source-specific national chemical transport model (CTM) simulations (R2: 0.45 for COA, 0.4 for HOA). Our measured data, empirical models, and CTM predictions all show that COA concentrations are about two times higher than HOA. Since COA and HOA are important contributors to the intra-urban spatial variability of the total PM2.5, our results highlight the potential importance of controlling commercial cooking emissions for air quality management in the United States.
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- Provat K Saha
- Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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- Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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- School of Public and International Affairs, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, United States
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- Center for Environmental Measurement and Modeling, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, Durham, North Carolina 27709, United States
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- General Dynamics Information Technology, Research Triangle Park, Durham, North Carolina 27711, United States
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- Department of Public Informatics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901, United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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- Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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Xu J, Zhang M, Ganji A, Mallinen K, Wang A, Lloyd M, Venuta A, Simon L, Kang J, Gong J, Zamel Y, Weichenthal S, Hatzopoulou M. Prediction of Short-Term Ultrafine Particle Exposures Using Real-Time Street-Level Images Paired with Air Quality Measurements. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2022; 56:12886-12897. [PMID: 36044680 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.2c03193] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Within-city ultrafine particle (UFP) concentrations vary sharply since they are influenced by various factors. We developed prediction models for short-term UFP exposures using street-level images collected by a camera installed on a vehicle rooftop, paired with air quality measurements conducted during a large-scale mobile monitoring campaign in Toronto, Canada. Convolutional neural network models were trained to extract traffic and built environment features from images. These features, along with regional air quality and meteorology data were used to predict short-term UFP concentration as a continuous and categorical variable. A gradient boost model for UFP as a continuous variable achieved R2 = 0.66 and RMSE = 9391.8#/cm3 (mean values for 10-fold cross-validation). The model predicting categorical UFP achieved accuracies for "Low" and "High" UFP of 77 and 70%, respectively. The presence of trucks and other traffic parameters were associated with higher UFPs, and the spatial distribution of elevated short-term UFP followed the distribution of single-unit trucks. This study demonstrates that pictures captured on urban streets, associated with regional air quality and meteorology, can adequately predict short-term UFP exposure. Capturing the spatial distribution of high-frequency short-term UFP spikes in urban areas provides crucial information for the management of near-road air pollution hot spots.
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- Junshi Xu
- Civil and Mineral Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A4, Canada
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- Civil and Mineral Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A4, Canada
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- Civil and Mineral Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A4, Canada
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- Civil and Mineral Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A4, Canada
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- Urban Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1A2, Canada
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- Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1A2, Canada
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- Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1A2, Canada
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- Civil and Mineral Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A4, Canada
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- Civil and Mineral Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A4, Canada
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- Civil and Mineral Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A4, Canada
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- Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1A2, Canada
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- Civil and Mineral Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A4, Canada
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Blanco MN, Gassett A, Gould T, Doubleday A, Slager DL, Austin E, Seto E, Larson TV, Marshall JD, Sheppard L. Characterization of Annual Average Traffic-Related Air Pollution Concentrations in the Greater Seattle Area from a Year-Long Mobile Monitoring Campaign. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2022; 56:11460-11472. [PMID: 35917479 PMCID: PMC9396693 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.2c01077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Growing evidence links traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) to adverse health effects. We designed an innovative and extensive mobile monitoring campaign to characterize TRAP exposure levels for the Adult Changes in Thought (ACT) study, a Seattle-based cohort. The campaign measured particle number concentration (PNC) to capture ultrafine particles (UFP), black carbon (BC), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), fine particulate matter (PM2.5), and carbon dioxide (CO2) at 309 roadside sites within a large, 1200 land km2 (463 mi2) area representative of the cohort. We collected about 29 two-minute measurements at each site during all seasons, days of the week, and most times of the day over a 1-year period. Validation showed good agreement between our BC, NO2, and PM2.5 measurements and monitoring agency sites (R2 = 0.68-0.73). Universal kriging-partial least squares models of annual average pollutant concentrations had cross-validated mean square error-based R2 (and root mean square error) values of 0.77 (1177 pt/cm3) for PNC, 0.60 (102 ng/m3) for BC, 0.77 (1.3 ppb) for NO2, 0.70 (0.3 μg/m3) for PM2.5, and 0.51 (4.2 ppm) for CO2. Overall, we found that the design of this extensive campaign captured the spatial pollutant variations well and these were explained by sensible land use features, including those related to traffic.
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- Magali N. Blanco
- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, 3980 15th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98195, United States of America
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, 3980 15th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98195, United States of America
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- Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Washington, 201 More Hall, Box 352700, Seattle, WA 98195, United States of America
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, 3980 15th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98195, United States of America
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, 3980 15th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98195, United States of America
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, 3980 15th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98195, United States of America
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, 3980 15th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98195, United States of America
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, 3980 15th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98195, United States of America
- Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Washington, 201 More Hall, Box 352700, Seattle, WA 98195, United States of America
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- Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Washington, 201 More Hall, Box 352700, Seattle, WA 98195, United States of America
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, 3980 15th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98195, United States of America
- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, 3980 15th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98195, United States of America
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Alas HD, Stöcker A, Umlauf N, Senaweera O, Pfeifer S, Greven S, Wiedensohler A. Pedestrian exposure to black carbon and PM 2.5 emissions in urban hot spots: new findings using mobile measurement techniques and flexible Bayesian regression models. JOURNAL OF EXPOSURE SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY 2022; 32:604-614. [PMID: 34455418 PMCID: PMC9349038 DOI: 10.1038/s41370-021-00379-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2020] [Revised: 08/04/2021] [Accepted: 08/06/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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BACKGROUND Data from extensive mobile measurements (MM) of air pollutants provide spatially resolved information on pedestrians' exposure to particulate matter (black carbon (BC) and PM2.5 mass concentrations). OBJECTIVE We present a distributional regression model in a Bayesian framework that estimates the effects of spatiotemporal factors on the pollutant concentrations influencing pedestrian exposure. METHODS We modeled the mean and variance of the pollutant concentrations obtained from MM in two cities and extended commonly used lognormal models with a lognormal-normal convolution (logNNC) extension for BC to account for instrument measurement error. RESULTS The logNNC extension significantly improved the BC model. From these model results, we found local sources and, hence, local mitigation efforts to improve air quality, have more impact on the ambient levels of BC mass concentrations than on the regulated PM2.5. SIGNIFICANCE Firstly, this model (logNNC in bamlss package available in R) could be used for the statistical analysis of MM data from various study areas and pollutants with the potential for predicting pollutant concentrations in urban areas. Secondly, with respect to pedestrian exposure, it is crucial for BC mass concentration to be monitored and regulated in areas dominated by traffic-related air pollution.
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- Honey Dawn Alas
- Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS), Leipzig, Germany.
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- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), Munich, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS), Leipzig, Germany
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Tian Y, deSouza P, Mora S, Yao X, Duarte F, Norford LK, Lin H, Ratti C. Evaluating the Meteorological Effects on the Urban Form-Air Quality Relationship Using Mobile Monitoring. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2022; 56:7328-7336. [PMID: 35075907 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.1c04854] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Predictive models based on mobile measurements have been increasingly used to understand the spatiotemporal variations of intraurban air quality. However, the effects of meteorological factors, which significantly affect the dispersion of air pollution, on the urban-form-air-quality relationship have not been understood on a granular level. We attempt to fill this gap by developing predictive models of particulate matter (PM) in the Bronx (New York City) using meteorological and urban form parameters. The granular PM data was collected by mobile low-cost sensors as the ground truth. To evaluate the effects of meteorological factors, we compared the performance of models using the urban form within fixed and wind-sensitive buffers, respectively. We find better predictive power in the wind-sensitive group (R = 0.85) for NC10 (number concentration for particles with diameters of 1 μm-10 μm) than the control group (R = 0.01), and modest improvements for PM2.5 (R = 0.84 for the wind sensitive group, R = 0.77 for the control group), indicating that incorporating meteorological factors improved the predictive power of our models. We also found that urban form factors account for 62.95% of feature importance for NC10 and 14.90% for PM2.5 (9.99% and 4.91% for 3-D and 2-D urban form factors, respectively) in our Random Forest models. It suggests the importance of incorporating urban form factors, especially for the uncommonly used 3-D characteristics, in estimating intraurban PM. Our method can be applied in other cities to better capture the influence of urban context on PM levels.
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- Ye Tian
- School of Geography and Environment, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, 330022, China
- Senseable City Laboratory, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
- Department of Geography, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- Department of Urban Studies and Planning, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80202, United States
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- Senseable City Laboratory, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Geography, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- Senseable City Laboratory, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
- Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, 80215 Brazil
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- Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- School of Geography and Environment, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, 330022, China
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- Senseable City Laboratory, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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Kerckhoffs J, Khan J, Hoek G, Yuan Z, Ellermann T, Hertel O, Ketzel M, Jensen SS, Meliefste K, Vermeulen R. Mixed-Effects Modeling Framework for Amsterdam and Copenhagen for Outdoor NO 2 Concentrations Using Measurements Sampled with Google Street View Cars. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2022; 56:7174-7184. [PMID: 35262348 PMCID: PMC9178915 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.1c05806] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2021] [Revised: 12/23/2021] [Accepted: 02/15/2022] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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High-resolution air quality (AQ) maps based on street-by-street measurements have become possible through large-scale mobile measurement campaigns. Such campaigns have produced data-only maps and have been used to produce empirical models [i.e., land use regression (LUR) models]. Assuming that all road segments are measured, we developed a mixed model framework that predicts concentrations by an LUR model, while allowing road segments to deviate from the LUR prediction based on between-segment variation as a random effect. We used Google Street View cars, equipped with high-quality AQ instruments, and measured the concentration of NO2 on every street in Amsterdam (n = 46.664) and Copenhagen (n = 28.499) on average seven times over the course of 9 and 16 months, respectively. We compared the data-only mapping, LUR, and mixed model estimates with measurements from passive samplers (n = 82) and predictions from dispersion models in the same time window as mobile monitoring. In Amsterdam, mixed model estimates correlated rs (Spearman correlation) = 0.85 with external measurements, whereas the data-only approach and LUR model estimates correlated rs = 0.74 and 0.75, respectively. Mixed model estimates also correlated higher rs = 0.65 with the deterministic model predictions compared to the data-only (rs = 0.50) and LUR model (rs = 0.61). In Copenhagen, mixed model estimates correlated rs = 0.51 with external model predictions compared to rs = 0.45 and rs = 0.50 for data-only and LUR model, respectively. Correlation increased for 97 locations (rs = 0.65) with more detailed traffic information. This means that the mixed model approach is able to combine the strength of data-only mapping (to show hyperlocal variation) and LUR models by shrinking uncertain concentrations toward the model output.
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- Jules Kerckhoffs
- Institute
for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, 3584 CK Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department
of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark
- Danish
Big Data Centre for Environment and Health (BERTHA), Aarhus University, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark
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- Institute
for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, 3584 CK Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Institute
for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, 3584 CK Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department
of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark
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- Department
of Bioscience, Aarhus University, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark
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- Department
of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark
- Global
Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE), University
of Surrey, GU2 7XH Guildford, U.K.
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- Department
of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark
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- Institute
for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, 3584 CK Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Institute
for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, 3584 CK Utrecht, Netherlands
- Julius Centre
for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Centre, University of Utrecht, 3584 CK Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Xu X, Qin N, Zhao W, Tian Q, Si Q, Wu W, Iskander N, Yang Z, Zhang Y, Duan X. A three-dimensional LUR framework for PM 2.5 exposure assessment based on mobile unmanned aerial vehicle monitoring. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2022; 301:118997. [PMID: 35176409 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2022.118997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2021] [Revised: 02/11/2022] [Accepted: 02/12/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Land use regression (LUR) models have been widely used in epidemiological studies and risk assessments related to air pollution. Although efforts have been made to improve the performance of LUR models so that they capture the spatial heterogeneity of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in high-density cities, few studies have revealed the vertical differences in PM2.5 exposure. This study proposes a three-dimensional LUR (3-D LUR) assessment framework for PM2.5 exposure that combines a high-resolution LUR model with a vertical PM2.5 variation model to investigate the results of horizontal and vertical mobile PM2.5 monitoring campaigns. High-resolution LUR models that were developed independently for daytime and nighttime were found to explain 51% and 60% of the PM2.5 variation, respectively. Vertical measurements of PM2.5 from three regions were first parameterized to produce a coefficient of variation for the concentration (CVC) to define the rate at which PM2.5 changes at a certain height relative to the ground. The vertical variation model for PM2.5 was developed based on a spline smoothing function in a generalized additive model (GAM) framework with an adjusted R2 of 0.91 and explained 92.8% of the variance. PM2.5 exposure levels for the population in the study area were estimated based on both the LUR models and the 3-D LUR framework. The 3-D LUR framework was found to improve the accuracy of exposure estimation in the vertical direction by avoiding exposure estimation errors of up to 5%. Although the 3-D LUR-based assessment did not indicate significant variation in estimates of premature mortality that could be attributed to PM2.5, exposure to this pollutant was found to differ in the vertical direction. The 3-D LUR framework has the potential to provide accurate exposure estimates for use in future epidemiological studies and health risk assessments.
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- Xiangyu Xu
- School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology of Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
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- School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology of Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
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- School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology of Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
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- School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology of Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
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- School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology of Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
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- School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology of Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
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- School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology of Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
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- Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, United States
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- National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100021, China
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- School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology of Beijing, Beijing 100083, China.
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Understanding NO2 Concentration Dynamics within Tema Metropolitan Area of Ghana Using Generalized Linear Model. ATMOSPHERE 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/atmos13010091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The concentration of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) is worsening across the globe alongside growth in industrial and general anthropogenic activities. Due to its serious health implications with long-term exposure, studies on NO2 concentration have gained space in the academic literature. In this study, awareness is created on the levels of NO2 across four (4) locations within the Tema Metropolitan area, with specific interest in selecting locations and periods significantly saturated with NO2 within the study area. NO2 was measured using RKI Eagle, an instrument with a built-in sensor for a specific gas measurement. Measurements were taken day and night at sampling points around 100 meters apart in each location. Data collection was performed over a nine (9)-month period. The Generalized Linear model is explored for selecting locations and periods significantly affected by NO2. From the results, the fourth week (26th–31st) of July 2020, the fourth week (27th–31st) of December 2020, the first week (1st–7th) of January 2021, and the fourth week (24th–31st) of January 2021 recorded severe concentrations of NO2. Additionally, the lives of residents in the Oil Jetty and the VALVO hospital areas were found to be the most endangered, as they recorded significantly high concentrations of NO2. In a developing country such as Ghana, this study is useful for monitoring NO2 concentrations in similar areas to inform decision making and environmental policy formulation.
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Shi Y, Lau AKH, Ng E, Ho HC, Bilal M. A Multiscale Land Use Regression Approach for Estimating Intraurban Spatial Variability of PM 2.5 Concentration by Integrating Multisource Datasets. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2021; 19:321. [PMID: 35010580 PMCID: PMC8751171 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19010321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2021] [Revised: 12/24/2021] [Accepted: 12/28/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Poor air quality has been a major urban environmental issue in large high-density cities all over the world, and particularly in Asia, where the multiscale complex of pollution dispersal creates a high-level spatial variability of exposure level. Investigating such multiscale complexity and fine-scale spatial variability is challenging. In this study, we aim to tackle the challenge by focusing on PM2.5 (particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter less than 2.5 µm,) which is one of the most concerning air pollutants. We use the widely adopted land use regression (LUR) modeling technique as the fundamental method to integrate air quality data, satellite data, meteorological data, and spatial data from multiple sources. Unlike most LUR and Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD)-PM2.5 studies, the modeling process was conducted independently at city and neighborhood scales. Correspondingly, predictor variables at the two scales were treated separately. At the city scale, the model developed in the present study obtains better prediction performance in the AOD-PM2.5 relationship when compared with previous studies (R2¯ from 0.72 to 0.80). At the neighborhood scale, point-based building morphological indices and road network centrality metrics were found to be fit-for-purpose indicators of PM2.5 spatial estimation. The resultant PM2.5 map was produced by combining the models from the two scales, which offers a geospatial estimation of small-scale intraurban variability.
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- Yuan Shi
- Institute of Future Cities (IOFC), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Division of Environment and Sustainability, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China;
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
- Institute for the Environment, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
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- Institute of Future Cities (IOFC), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
- School of Architecture, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China;
- Institute of Environment, Energy and Sustainability (IEES), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Urban Planning and Design, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China;
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- Lab of Environmental Remote Sensing (LERS), School of Marine Sciences, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China;
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Xu X, Qin N, Qi L, Zou B, Cao S, Zhang K, Yang Z, Liu Y, Zhang Y, Duan X. Development of season-dependent land use regression models to estimate BC and PM 1 exposure. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2021; 793:148540. [PMID: 34171802 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148540] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2021] [Revised: 06/11/2021] [Accepted: 06/15/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Reliable estimation of exposure to black carbon (BC) and sub-micrometer particles (PM1) within a city is challenging because of limited monitoring data as well as the lack of models suitable for assessing the intra-urban environment. In this study, to estimate exposure levels in the inner-city area, we developed land use regression (LUR) models for BC and PM1 based on specially designed mobile monitoring surveys conducted in 2019 and 2020 for three seasons. The daytime and nighttime LUR models were developed separately to capture additional details on the variation in pollutants. The results of mobile monitoring indicated similar temporal variation characteristics of BC and PM1. The mean concentrations of pollutants were higher in winter (BC: 4.72 μg/m3; PM1: 56.97 μg/m3) than in fall (BC: 3.74 μg/m3; PM1: 33.29 μg/m3) and summer (BC: 2.77 μg/m3; PM1: 27.04 μg/m3). For both BC and PM1, higher nighttime concentrations were found in winter and fall, whereas higher daytime concentrations were observed in the summer. A supervised forward stepwise regression method was used to select the predictors for the LUR models. The adjusted R2 of the LUR models for BC and PM1 ranged from 0.39 to 0.66 and 0.45 to 0.80, respectively. Traffic-related predictors were incorporated into all the models for BC. In contrast, more meteorology-related predictors were incorporated into the PM1 models. The concentration surface based on the LUR models was mapped at a spatial resolution of 100 m, and significant seasonal and diurnal trends were observed. PM1 was dominated by seasonal variations, whereas BC showed more spatial variation. In conclusion, the development of season-dependent diurnal LUR models based on mobile monitoring could provide a methodology for the estimation of exposure and screening of influencing factors of BC and PM1 in typical inner-city environments, and support pollution management.
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- Xiangyu Xu
- School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology of Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
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- School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology of Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
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- School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology of Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
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- School of Geosciences and Info-Physics, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410083, China
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- School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology of Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY 12144, USA
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- Global Health Research Center, Duke Kunshan University, Kunshan, Jiangsu Province 215316, China
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- School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology of Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
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- National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100021, China
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- School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology of Beijing, Beijing 100083, China.
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Saha PK, Hankey S, Marshall JD, Robinson AL, Presto AA. High-Spatial-Resolution Estimates of Ultrafine Particle Concentrations across the Continental United States. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2021; 55:10320-10331. [PMID: 34284581 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.1c03237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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There is growing evidence that ultrafine particles (UFP; particles smaller than 100 nm) are likely more toxic than larger particles. However, the health effects of UFP remain uncertain due in part to the lack of large-scale population-based exposure assessment. We develop a national-scale empirical model of particle number concentration (PNC; a measure of UFP) using data from mobile monitoring and fixed sites across the United States and a land-use regression (LUR) modeling framework. Traffic, commercial land use, and urbanicity-related variables explain much of the spatial variability of PNC (base model R2 = 0.77, RMSE = 2400 cm-3). Model predictions are robust across a diverse set of evaluations [random 10-fold holdout cross-validation (HCV): R2 = 0.72, RMSE = 2700 cm-3; spatially defined HCV: R2 = 0.66, RMSE = 3000 cm-3; evaluation against an independent data set: R2 = 0.54, RMSE = 2600 cm-3]. We apply our model to predict PNC at ∼6 million residential census blocks in the contiguous United States. Our estimates are annual average concentrations for 2016-2017. The predicted national census-block-level mean PNC ranges between 1800 and 26 600 cm-3 (population-weighted average: 6500 cm-3), with hotspots in cities and near highways. Our national PNC model predicts large urban-rural, intra-, and inter-city contrasts. PNC and PM2.5 are moderately correlated at the city scale, but uncorrelated at the regional/national scale. Our high-spatial-resolution national PNC estimates are useful for analyzing population exposure (socioeconomic disparity, epidemiological health impact) and environmental policy and regulation.
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- Provat K Saha
- Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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- School of Public and International Affairs, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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- Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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- Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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Mapping Urban Air Quality from Mobile Sensors Using Spatio-Temporal Geostatistics. SENSORS 2021; 21:s21144717. [PMID: 34300458 PMCID: PMC8309582 DOI: 10.3390/s21144717] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2021] [Revised: 06/26/2021] [Accepted: 07/02/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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With the advancement of technology and the arrival of miniaturized environmental sensors that offer greater performance, the idea of building mobile network sensing for air quality has quickly emerged to increase our knowledge of air pollution in urban environments. However, with these new techniques, the difficulty of building mathematical models capable of aggregating all these data sources in order to provide precise mapping of air quality arises. In this context, we explore the spatio-temporal geostatistics methods as a solution for such a problem and evaluate three different methods: Simple Kriging (SK) in residuals, Ordinary Kriging (OK), and Kriging with External Drift (KED). On average, geostatistical models showed 26.57% improvement in the Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE) compared to the standard Inverse Distance Weighting (IDW) technique in interpolating scenarios (27.94% for KED, 26.05% for OK, and 25.71% for SK). The results showed less significant scores in extrapolating scenarios (a 12.22% decrease in the RMSE for geostatisical models compared to IDW). We conclude that univariable geostatistics is suitable for interpolating this type of data but is less appropriate for an extrapolation of non-sampled places since it does not create any information.
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Kirwa K, Szpiro AA, Sheppard L, Sampson PD, Wang M, Keller JP, Young MT, Kim SY, Larson TV, Kaufman JD. Fine-Scale Air Pollution Models for Epidemiologic Research: Insights From Approaches Developed in the Multi-ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and Air Pollution (MESA Air). Curr Environ Health Rep 2021; 8:113-126. [PMID: 34086258 PMCID: PMC8278964 DOI: 10.1007/s40572-021-00310-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW Epidemiological studies of short- and long-term health impacts of ambient air pollutants require accurate exposure estimates. We describe the evolution in exposure assessment and assignment in air pollution epidemiology, with a focus on spatiotemporal techniques first developed to meet the needs of the Multi-ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and Air Pollution (MESA Air). Initially designed to capture the substantial variation in pollutant levels and potential health impacts that can occur over small spatial and temporal scales in metropolitan areas, these methods have now matured to permit fine-scale exposure characterization across the contiguous USA and can be used for understanding long- and short-term health effects of exposure across the lifespan. For context, we highlight how the MESA Air models compare to other available exposure models. RECENT FINDINGS Newer model-based exposure assessment techniques provide predictions of pollutant concentrations with fine spatial and temporal resolution. These validated models can predict concentrations of several pollutants, including particulate matter less than 2.5 μm in diameter (PM2.5), oxides of nitrogen, and ozone, at specific locations (such as at residential addresses) over short time intervals (such as 2 weeks) across the contiguous USA between 1980 and the present. Advances in statistical methods, incorporation of supplemental pollutant monitoring campaigns, improved geographic information systems, and integration of more complete satellite and chemical transport model outputs have contributed to the increasing validity and refined spatiotemporal spans of available models. Modern models for predicting levels of outdoor concentrations of air pollutants can explain a substantial amount of the spatiotemporal variation in observations and are being used to provide critical insights into effects of air pollutants on the prevalence, incidence, progression, and prognosis of diseases across the lifespan. Additional enhancements in model inputs and model design, such as incorporation of better traffic data, novel monitoring platforms, and deployment of machine learning techniques, will allow even further improvements in the performance of pollutant prediction models.
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- Kipruto Kirwa
- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, WA, USA.
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Departments of Biostatistics and Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Statistics, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, School of Public Health and Health Professions Research and Education in Energy, Environment and Water Institute, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA
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- Department of Statistics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, WA, USA
- Institute of Health and Environment, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Departments of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Epidemiology, and Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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Shairsingh KK, Brook JR, Mihele CM, Evans GJ. Characterizing long-term NO 2 concentration surfaces across a large metropolitan area through spatiotemporal land use regression modelling of mobile measurements. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2021; 196:111010. [PMID: 33716024 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2021.111010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2020] [Revised: 01/12/2021] [Accepted: 03/08/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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A spatiotemporal land use regression (LUR) model optimized to predict nitrogen dioxide (NO2) concentrations obtained from on-road, mobile measurements collected in 2015-16 was independently evaluated using concentrations observed at multiple sites across Toronto, Canada, obtained more than ten years earlier. This spatiotemporal LUR modelling approach improves upon estimates of historical NO2 concentrations derived from the previously used method of back-extrapolation. The optimal spatiotemporal LUR model (R2 = 0.71 for prediction of NO2 data in 2002 and 2004) uses daily average NO2 concentrations observed at multiple long-term monitoring sites and hourly average wind speed recorded at a single site, along with spatial predictors based on geographical information system data, to estimate NO2 levels for time periods outside of those used for model development. While the model tended to underestimate samplers located close to the roadway, it showed great accuracy when estimating samplers located beyond 100 m which are probably more relevant for exposure at residences. This study shows that spatiotemporal LUR models developed from strategic, multi-day (30 days in 3 different months) mobile measurements can enhance LUR model's ability to estimate long-term, intra-urban NO2 patterns. Furthermore, the mobile sampling strategy enabled this new LUR model to cover a larger domain of Toronto and outlying suburban communities, thereby increasing the potential population for future epidemiological studies.
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- Kerolyn K Shairsingh
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry. University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3E5, Canada.
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry. University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3E5, Canada; Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 3M7, Canada.
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- Environment and Climate Change Canada, North York, Ontario, M3H 5T4, Canada
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry. University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3E5, Canada
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Shang Y, Chen R, Bai R, Tu J, Tian L. Quantification of long-term accumulation of inhaled ultrafine particles via human olfactory-brain pathway due to environmental emissions - a pilot study. NANOIMPACT 2021; 22:100322. [PMID: 35559979 DOI: 10.1016/j.impact.2021.100322] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2021] [Revised: 04/08/2021] [Accepted: 05/02/2021] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Olfactory pathway as a viable route for brain uptake of environmental pollutants has been hypothesized in past decade. In such a hypothesis, subclinical low-dose exposure and chronic brain accumulation of exogenous airborne agents are critical to define neurodegenerations, however the information is extremely lacking. Advances in granular measurement of air pollutants, real-time personal exposure monitoring and big data analytics have opened-up an unprecedented opportunity to enable researchers conduct longitudinal investigation and potentially link the external environment condition to risks of human developing neurodegenerative diseases in a foreseeable future. Detailed case studies are provided in this work that illustrate the quantification of human brain accumulation of ultrafine particles (UFPs) from exposure, surface deposition, and pathway penetration via the transport route of nasal olfactory in prolonged timespans. The study links the individual components along the olfactory pathway, showcases the available research capacity, and pinpoints the critical areas of research need in environmental, toxicological and epidemiological studies, significant to a joint effort to bring together an interdisciplinary solution to uncover the insight of time course and dose dependency between environmental exposure and risk of developing neurodegenerative diseases in a foreseeable future. It should be noted that current study assumes that nanoparticle penetration along the olfactory pathway is unidirectional and follows the rate observed in the rodent study. Tissue responses in determining the penetration and retention corresponding to size and composition of the inhaled nanoparticles are not considered.
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- Yidan Shang
- College of Air Transportation, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai 201620, China; School of Engineering - Mechanical and Automotive, RMIT University, Bundoora, VIC 3000, Australia
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Occupational Safety and Health, Beijing Municipal Institute of Labour Protection, Beijing Academy of Science and Technology, Beijing 100054, China; CAS Key Lab for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology of China, Beijing 100190, China
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- CAS Key Lab for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology of China, Beijing 100190, China
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- School of Engineering - Mechanical and Automotive, RMIT University, Bundoora, VIC 3000, Australia.
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- College of Air Transportation, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai 201620, China.
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Tessum MW, Sheppard L, Larson TV, Gould TR, Kaufman JD, Vedal S. Improving Air Pollution Predictions of Long-Term Exposure Using Short-Term Mobile and Stationary Monitoring in Two US Metropolitan Regions. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2021; 55:3530-3538. [PMID: 33635626 PMCID: PMC8729258 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c04328] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Mobile monitoring is increasingly employed to measure fine spatial-scale variation in air pollutant concentrations. However, mobile measurement campaigns are typically conducted over periods much shorter than the decadal periods used for modeling chronic exposure for use in air pollution epidemiology. Using the regions of Los Angeles and Baltimore and the time period from 2005 to 2014 as our modeling domain, we investigate whether including mobile or stationary passive sampling device (PSD) monitoring data collected over a single 2-week period in one or two seasons using a unified spatio-temporal air pollution model can improve model performance in predicting NO2 and NOx concentrations throughout the 9-year study period beyond what is possible using only routine monitoring data. In this initial study, we use data from mobile measurement campaigns conducted contemporaneously with deployments of stationary PSDs and only use mobile data collected within 300 m of a stationary PSD location for inclusion in the model. We find that including either mobile or PSD data substantially improves model performance for pollutants and locations where model performance was initially the worst (with the most-improved R2 changing from 0.40 to 0.82) but does not meaningfully change performance in cases where performance was already very good. Results indicate that in many cases, additional spatial information from mobile monitoring and personal sampling is potentially cost-efficient inexpensive way of improving exposure predictions at both 2-week and decadal averaging periods, especially for the predictions that are located closer to features such as roadways targeted by the mobile short-term monitoring campaign.
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- Mei W. Tessum
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
- University of Washington, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Box 357234, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- University of Washington, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Box 357234, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
- University of Washington, Department of Biostatistics, Box 357232, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- University of Washington, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Box 357234, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
- University of Washington, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Box 352700, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- University of Washington, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Box 352700, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- University of Washington, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Box 357234, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- University of Washington, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Box 357234, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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Qi M, Hankey S. Using Street View Imagery to Predict Street-Level Particulate Air Pollution. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2021; 55:2695-2704. [PMID: 33539080 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c05572] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Land-use regression (LUR) models are frequently applied to estimate spatial patterns of air pollution. Traditional LUR often relies on fixed-site measurements and GIS-derived variables with limited spatial resolution. We present an approach that leverages Google Street View (GSV) imagery to predict street-level particulate air pollution (i.e., black carbon [BC] and particle number [PN] concentrations). We developed empirical models based on mobile monitoring data and features extracted from ∼52 500 GSV images using a deep learning model. We tested theory- and data-driven feature selection methods as well as models using images within varying buffer sizes (50-2000 m). Compared to LUR models with traditional variables, our models achieved similar model performance using the street-level predictors while also identifying additional potential hotspots. Adjusted R2 (10-fold CV R2) with integrated feature selection was 0.57-0.64 (0.50-0.57) and 0.65-0.73 (0.61-0.66) for BC and PN models, respectively. Models using only features near the measurement locations (i.e., GSV images within 250 m) explained ∼50% of air pollution variability, indicating PN and BC are strongly affected by the street-level built environment. Our results suggest that GSV imagery, processed with computer vision techniques, is a promising data source to develop LUR models with high spatial resolution and consistent predictor variables across administrative boundaries.
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- Meng Qi
- School of Public and International Affairs, Virginia Tech, 140 Otey Street, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, United States
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- School of Public and International Affairs, Virginia Tech, 140 Otey Street, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, United States
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Agyemang-Duah W, Oduro Appiah J, Adei D. Protecting the patches from the footprints: examining the land use factors associated with forest patches in Atewa range forest reserve. BMC Ecol Evol 2021; 21:28. [PMID: 33588761 PMCID: PMC7885454 DOI: 10.1186/s12862-021-01758-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2020] [Accepted: 02/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Land use practices are noted to contribute to changes in forest landscape composition. However, whereas studies have reported the intermix of land uses and forest patches and measured the direct impacts of land uses on forest patches, little is known regarding the spatially-explicit association between the most recent forest patches and land use footprints in protected areas. In this study, we use methods from GIS, remote sensing, and statistics to model the spatial relationship between footprints of land uses and patches of forest cover by drawing on geospatial data from the Atewa range forest reserve (ARFR). RESULTS The study finds that forest patches that are within 1 km from agricultural land use footprints (AOR = 86.625, C.I. 18.057-415.563, P = 0.000), logging sites (AOR = 55.909, C.I. 12.032-259.804, P = 0.000), mine sites (53.571, C.I. 11.287-254.255, P = 0.000), access roads (AOR = 24.169, C.I. 5.544-105.357, P = 0.000), and human settlement footprints (AOR = 7.172, C.I. 1.969-26.128, P = 0.003) are significantly more likely to be less than the mean patch area (375,431.87 m2 = 37.54 ha) of forest cover. A ROC statistic of 0.995 achieved in this study suggests a high predictive power of the proposed model. CONCLUSION The study findings suggest that to ensure sustainable land uses and ecological integrity, there is a need for land use policies and land management strategies that ensure responsible livelihood activities as well as further restrictions on logging and mining in the globally significant biodiversity area.
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- Williams Agyemang-Duah
- Department of Planning, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Private Mail Bag, Kumasi, Ghana.
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- School of Environmental Planning, University of Northern British Columbia, 3333 University Way, Prince George, BC, V2N 4Z9, Canada
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- Department of Planning, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Private Mail Bag, Kumasi, Ghana
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van de Beek E, Kerckhoffs J, Hoek G, Sterk G, Meliefste K, Gehring U, Vermeulen R. Spatial and Spatiotemporal Variability of Regional Background Ultrafine Particle Concentrations in the Netherlands. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2021; 55:1067-1075. [PMID: 33378199 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c0680610.1021/acs.est.0c06806.s001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Studies of the health effects of ultrafine particles (UFPs) in large nationwide cohorts are currently hampered by a lack of knowledge about spatial and spatiotemporal variations in regional background UFPs. We measured the UFP (10-300 nm) at 20 regional background locations (3 × 2 weeks) across the Netherlands and a reference site continuously over a total period of 14 months in 2016-2017. We compared the overall averages for each site and used kriging to create a regional background spatial map of the Netherlands. Spatiotemporal variability was analyzed by correlating time-series of 2 and 24 h average concentrations. The overall average measured UFP concentrations at the 20 locations ranged from 3814 to 7070 particles/cm3. We found the spatial correlation in the UFP concentrations up to 180 km and clear differences between the north and the more populated southern parts of the country. The average temporal correlation between 2 and 24 h average UFP concentrations was 0.50 (IQR: 0.36-0.61) and 0.58 (IQR: 0.44-0.75), respectively. Temporal correlation declined weakly with a distance between sites, from 0.58 for sites within 80 km of each other to 0.47 for sites farther away. The substantial spatial variation in the regional background UFP concentrations suggests that regional variation may contribute importantly to exposure contrast in nationwide health studies of UFP.
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- Esther van de Beek
- Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Division of Environmental Epidemiology, Utrecht University, 3584 CK Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Division of Environmental Epidemiology, Utrecht University, 3584 CK Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Division of Environmental Epidemiology, Utrecht University, 3584 CK Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht University, 3508 TC Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Division of Environmental Epidemiology, Utrecht University, 3584 CK Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Division of Environmental Epidemiology, Utrecht University, 3584 CK Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Division of Environmental Epidemiology, Utrecht University, 3584 CK Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center, University of Utrecht, 3584 CK Utrecht, The Netherlands
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van de Beek E, Kerckhoffs J, Hoek G, Sterk G, Meliefste K, Gehring U, Vermeulen R. Spatial and Spatiotemporal Variability of Regional Background Ultrafine Particle Concentrations in the Netherlands. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2021; 55:1067-1075. [PMID: 33378199 PMCID: PMC7818655 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c06806] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Studies of the health effects of ultrafine particles (UFPs) in large nationwide cohorts are currently hampered by a lack of knowledge about spatial and spatiotemporal variations in regional background UFPs. We measured the UFP (10-300 nm) at 20 regional background locations (3 × 2 weeks) across the Netherlands and a reference site continuously over a total period of 14 months in 2016-2017. We compared the overall averages for each site and used kriging to create a regional background spatial map of the Netherlands. Spatiotemporal variability was analyzed by correlating time-series of 2 and 24 h average concentrations. The overall average measured UFP concentrations at the 20 locations ranged from 3814 to 7070 particles/cm3. We found the spatial correlation in the UFP concentrations up to 180 km and clear differences between the north and the more populated southern parts of the country. The average temporal correlation between 2 and 24 h average UFP concentrations was 0.50 (IQR: 0.36-0.61) and 0.58 (IQR: 0.44-0.75), respectively. Temporal correlation declined weakly with a distance between sites, from 0.58 for sites within 80 km of each other to 0.47 for sites farther away. The substantial spatial variation in the regional background UFP concentrations suggests that regional variation may contribute importantly to exposure contrast in nationwide health studies of UFP.
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- Esther van de Beek
- Institute
for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Division of Environmental Epidemiology, Utrecht University, 3584 CK Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Institute
for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Division of Environmental Epidemiology, Utrecht University, 3584 CK Utrecht, The Netherlands
- E-mail:
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- Institute
for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Division of Environmental Epidemiology, Utrecht University, 3584 CK Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department
of Physical Geography, Utrecht University, 3508 TC Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Institute
for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Division of Environmental Epidemiology, Utrecht University, 3584 CK Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Institute
for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Division of Environmental Epidemiology, Utrecht University, 3584 CK Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Institute
for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Division of Environmental Epidemiology, Utrecht University, 3584 CK Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Julius
Center for Health
Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical
Center, University of Utrecht, 3584 CK Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Xu X, Qin N, Yang Z, Liu Y, Cao S, Zou B, Jin L, Zhang Y, Duan X. Potential for developing independent daytime/nighttime LUR models based on short-term mobile monitoring to improve model performance. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2021; 268:115951. [PMID: 33162219 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2020.115951] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2020] [Revised: 10/10/2020] [Accepted: 10/27/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Land use regression model (LUR) is a widespread method for predicting air pollution exposure. Few studies have explored the performance of independently developed daytime/nighttime LUR models. In this study, fine particulate matter (PM2.5), inhalable particulate matter (PM10), and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) concentrations were measured by mobile monitoring during non-heating and heating seasons in Taiyuan. Pollutant concentrations were higher in the nighttime than the daytime, and higher in the heating season than the non-heating season. Daytime/nighttime and full-day LUR models were developed and validated for each pollutant to examine variations in model performance. Adjusted coefficients of determination (adjusted R2) for the LUR models ranged from 0.53-0.87 (PM2.5), 0.53-0.85 (PM10), and 0.33-0.67 (NO2). The performance of the daytime/nighttime LUR models for PM2.5 and PM10 was better than that of the full-day models according to the results of model adjusted R2 and validation R2. Consistent results were confirmed in the non-heating and heating seasons. Effectiveness of developing independent daytime/nighttime models for NO2 to improve performance was limited. Surfaces based on the daytime/nighttime models revealed variations in concentrations and spatial distribution. In conclusion, the independent development of daytime/nighttime LUR models for PM2.5/PM10 has the potential to replace full-day models for better model performance. The modeling strategy is consistent with the residential activity patterns and contributes to achieving reliable exposure predictions for PM2.5 and PM10. Nighttime could be a critical exposure period, due to high pollutant concentrations.
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- Xiangyu Xu
- School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology of Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China
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- School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology of Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China
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- MRC Centre for Environment and Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, St Mary's Campus, London, United Kingdom
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- School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology of Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China
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- School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology of Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China
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- School of Geosciences and Info-Physics, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, 410083, China
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- Department of Surgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA; Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, 06510, USA
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- School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology of Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China.
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Vlachogiannis DM, Xu Y, Jin L, González MC. Correlation networks of air particulate matter ( PM 2.5 ): a comparative study. APPLIED NETWORK SCIENCE 2021; 6:32. [PMID: 33907706 PMCID: PMC8062950 DOI: 10.1007/s41109-021-00373-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2021] [Accepted: 04/08/2021] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Over the last decades, severe haze pollution constitutes a major source of far-reaching environmental and human health problems. The formation, accumulation and diffusion of pollution particles occurs under complex temporal scales and expands throughout a wide spatial coverage. Seeking to understand the transport patterns of haze pollutants in China, we review a proposed framework of time-evolving directed and weighted air quality correlation networks. In this work, we evaluate monitoring stations' time-series data from China and California, to test the sensitivity of the framework to region size, climate and pollution magnitude across multiple years (2014-2020). We learn that the use of hourly PM 2.5 concentration data is needed to detect periodicities in the positive and negative correlations of the concentrations. In addition, we show that the standardization of the correlation function method is required to obtain networks with more meaningful links when evaluating the dispersion of a severe haze event at the North China Plain or a wildfire event in California during December 2017. Post COVID-19 outbreak in China, we observe a significant drop in the magnitude of the assigned weights, indicating the improved air quality and the slowed transport of PM 2.5 due to the lockdown. To identify regions where pollution transport is persistent, we extend the framework, partitioning the dynamic networks and reducing the networks' complexity through node subsampling. The end result separates the temporal series of PM 2.5 in set of regions that are similarly affected through the year.
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- Dimitrios M. Vlachogiannis
- Energy Technologies Area, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
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- Energy Technologies Area, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
- Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
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- Energy Technologies Area, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
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- Energy Technologies Area, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
- Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
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Ganji A, Minet L, Weichenthal S, Hatzopoulou M. Predicting Traffic-Related Air Pollution Using Feature Extraction from Built Environment Images. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2020; 54:10688-10699. [PMID: 32786568 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c00412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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This study develops a set of algorithms to extract built environment features from Google aerial and street view images, reflecting the microcharacteristics of an urban location as well as the different functions of buildings. These features were used to train a Bayesian regularized artificial neural network (BRANN) model to predict near-road air quality based on measurements of ultrafine particles (UFPs) and black carbon (BC) in Toronto, Canada. The resulting models [adjusted R2 of 75.87 and 79.10% for UFP and BC and root mean squared error (RMSE) of 21,800 part/cm3 and 1300 ng/m3 for UFP and BC] were compared with similar ANN models developed using the same predictors, but extracted from traditional geographic information system (GIS) databases [adjusted R2 of 58.74 and 64.21% for UFP and BC and RMSE values of 23,000 part/cm3 and 1600 ng/m3 for UFP and BC]. The models based on feature extraction exhibited higher predictive power, thus highlighting the greater accuracy of the proposed methods compared to GIS layers that are solely based on aerial images. A comparison with other neural network approaches as well as with a traditional land-use regression model demonstrates the strength of the BRANN model for spatial interpolation of air quality.
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- Arman Ganji
- Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A1, Canada
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- Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A1, Canada
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- Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0G4, Canada
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- Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A1, Canada
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Modelling Cyclists’ Multi-Exposure to Air and Noise Pollution with Low-Cost Sensors—The Case of Paris. ATMOSPHERE 2020. [DOI: 10.3390/atmos11040422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Cyclists are particularly exposed to air and noise pollution because of their higher ventilation rate and their proximity to traffic. However, few studies have investigated their multi-exposure and have taken into account its real complexity in building statistical models (nonlinearity, pseudo replication, autocorrelation, etc.). We propose here to model cyclists’ exposure to air and noise pollution simultaneously in Paris (France). Specifically, the purpose of this study is to develop a methodology based on an extensive mobile data collection using low-cost sensors to determine which factors of the urban micro-scale environment contribute to cyclists’ multi-exposure and to what extent. To this end, we developed a conceptual framework to define cyclists’ multi-exposure and applied it to a multivariate generalized additive model with mixed effects and temporal autocorrelation. The results show that it is possible to reduce cyclists’ multi-exposure by adapting the planning and development practices of cycling infrastructure, and that this reduction can be substantial for noise exposure.
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Lim CC, Kim H, Vilcassim MJR, Thurston GD, Gordon T, Chen LC, Lee K, Heimbinder M, Kim SY. Mapping urban air quality using mobile sampling with low-cost sensors and machine learning in Seoul, South Korea. ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL 2019; 131:105022. [PMID: 31362154 PMCID: PMC6728172 DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2019.105022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2019] [Revised: 06/26/2019] [Accepted: 07/15/2019] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Recent studies have demonstrated that mobile sampling can improve the spatial granularity of land use regression (LUR) models. Mobile sampling campaigns deploying low-cost (<$300) air quality sensors could potentially offer an inexpensive and practical approach to measure and model air pollution concentration levels. In this study, we developed LUR models for street-level fine particulate matter (PM2.5) concentration levels in Seoul, South Korea. 169 h of data were collected from an approximately three week long campaign across five routes by ten volunteers sharing seven AirBeams, a low-cost ($250 per unit), smartphone-based particle counter, while geospatial data were extracted from OpenStreetMap, an open-source and crowd-generated geographical dataset. We applied and compared three statistical approaches in constructing the LUR models - linear regression (LR), random forest (RF), and stacked ensemble (SE) combining multiple machine learning algorithms - which resulted in cross-validation R2 values of 0.63, 0.73, and 0.80, respectively, and identification of several pollution 'hotspots.' The high R2 values suggest that study designs employing mobile sampling in conjunction with multiple low-cost air quality monitors could be applied to characterize urban street-level air quality with high spatial resolution, and that machine learning models could further improve model performance. Given this study design's cost-effectiveness and ease of implementation, similar approaches may be especially suitable for citizen science and community-based endeavors, or in regions bereft of air quality data and preexisting air monitoring networks, such as developing countries.
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- Chris C Lim
- Department of Environmental Medicine, New York School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States of America.
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- Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Environmental Medicine, New York School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States of America
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- Department of Environmental Medicine, New York School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States of America
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- Department of Environmental Medicine, New York School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States of America
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- Department of Environmental Medicine, New York School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States of America
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- Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Graduate School of Cancer Science and Policy, National Cancer Center, Gyeonggi, South Korea
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Robinson ES, Shah RU, Messier K, Gu P, Li HZ, Apte JS, Robinson AL, Presto AA. Land-Use Regression Modeling of Source-Resolved Fine Particulate Matter Components from Mobile Sampling. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2019; 53:8925-8937. [PMID: 31313910 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.9b01897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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This study presents land-use regression (LUR) models for submicron particulate matter (PM1) components from an urban area. Models are presented for mass concentrations of inorganic species (SO4, NO3, NH4), organic aerosol (OA) factors, and total PM1. OA is source-apportioned using positive matrix factorization (PMF) of data collected from aerosol mass spectrometry deployed on a mobile laboratory. PMF yielded a three-factor solution: cooking OA (COA), hydrocarbon-like OA (HOA), and less-oxidized oxygenated OA (LO-OOA). This study represents the first time that LUR has been applied to source-resolved OA factors. We sampled a roughly 20 km2 area of West Oakland, California, USA, over 1 month (mid-July to mid-August, 2017). The road network of the sampling domain was comprehensively sampled each day using a randomized driving route to minimize temporal and spatial bias. Mobile measurements were aggregated both spatially and temporally for use as discrete spatial observations for LUR model building. LUR model performance was highest for those species with more spatial variability (primary OA factors: COA R2 = 0.80, HOA R2 = 0.67) and lowest for secondary inorganic species (SO4 R2 = 0.47, NH4 R2 = 0.43) that were more spatially homogeneous. Notably, the stepwise selective LUR algorithm largely selected predictors for primary OA factors that correspond to the associated land-use categories (e.g., cooking land-use variables were selected in cooking-related PM models). This finding appears to be robust, as we demonstrate the predictive link between land-use variables and the corresponding source-resolved PM1 components through a subsampling analysis.
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- Ellis Shipley Robinson
- Department of Mechanical Engineering , Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania 15213 , United States
- Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies , Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania 15213 , United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering , Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania 15213 , United States
- Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies , Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania 15213 , United States
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- Department of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology , Oregon State University , Corvallis , Oregon 97333 , United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering , Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania 15213 , United States
- Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies , Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania 15213 , United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering , Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania 15213 , United States
- Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies , Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania 15213 , United States
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- Department of Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering , University of Texas at Austin , Austin , Texas 78705 , United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering , Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania 15213 , United States
- Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies , Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania 15213 , United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering , Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania 15213 , United States
- Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies , Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania 15213 , United States
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Mapping and Statistical Analysis of NO2 Concentration for Local Government Air Quality Regulation. SUSTAINABILITY 2019. [DOI: 10.3390/su11143809] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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With the growing interest in healthy living worldwide, there has been an increasing demand for more accurate measurements of the concentrations of air pollutants such as NO2. In particular, analyzing the characteristics and sources of air pollutants by region could improve the effectiveness of environmental policies applied in accordance with the environmental characteristics of individual regions. In this study, a detailed nationwide NO2 concentration map was generated using the cokriging interpolation technique, which integrates ground observations and satellite image data. The root-mean-square standardized (RMSS) error for this technique was close to 1, which indicates high accuracy. Using spatially interpolated NO2 concentration data, an administrative unit map was generated. When comparing the data for four NO2 data sources (observation data, satellite image data, detailed national data interpolated using cokriging, and NO2 concentrations averaged by an administrative unit based on the interpolated NO2 concentration data), the average concentrations were highest for remote sensing data. Land use regression (LUR) models of urban and non-urban regions were then developed to analyze the characteristics of the NO2 concentration by region using NO2 concentrations for the administrative units.
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Saha PK, Li HZ, Apte JS, Robinson AL, Presto AA. Urban Ultrafine Particle Exposure Assessment with Land-Use Regression: Influence of Sampling Strategy. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2019; 53:7326-7336. [PMID: 31150214 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.9b02086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Sampling strategies in the collection of ultrafine particle (UFP) data to develop land-use regression (LUR) models can strongly influence the resulting exposure estimates. Here, we systematically examine how much sampling is needed to develop robust and stable UFP LUR models. To address this question, we collected 3-6 weeks of continuous measurements of UFP concentrations at 32 sites in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania covering a wide range of urban land-use attributes. Through systematic subsampling of this data set, we evaluate the performance of hundreds of LUR models with varying numbers of sampling days and daily sampling durations. Our base LUR model derived from wintertime average concentrations explained about 80% of the spatial variability in the data (adjusted R2 ∼ 0.8). The performance of the LUR models degrades with decreasing number of sampling days and sampling duration per day. For our data set, 1-3 h of sampling per day for 10-15 days provided UFP concentration estimates comparable to models derived from the entire data set. Small numbers of repeated sampling per site (1-3 days) at short duration (∼15-60 min per day) result in poor performance ( R2 < 0.5), similar to previous UFP LUR models. This study provides guidelines for the design of future measurement campaigns and monitoring networks to generate robust UFP LUR models for exposure assessments. Further study in other locations with more sites is needed to evaluate these guidelines over a broader range of conditions.
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- Provat K Saha
- Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies , Carnegie Mellon University , 5000 Forbes Avenue , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania 15213 , United States
- Department of Mechanical Engineering , Carnegie Mellon University , 5000 Forbes Avenue , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania 15213 , United States
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- Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies , Carnegie Mellon University , 5000 Forbes Avenue , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania 15213 , United States
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- Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering , University of Texas at Austin , Austin , Texas 78712 , United States
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- Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies , Carnegie Mellon University , 5000 Forbes Avenue , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania 15213 , United States
- Department of Mechanical Engineering , Carnegie Mellon University , 5000 Forbes Avenue , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania 15213 , United States
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- Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies , Carnegie Mellon University , 5000 Forbes Avenue , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania 15213 , United States
- Department of Mechanical Engineering , Carnegie Mellon University , 5000 Forbes Avenue , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania 15213 , United States
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Caplin A, Ghandehari M, Lim C, Glimcher P, Thurston G. Advancing environmental exposure assessment science to benefit society. Nat Commun 2019; 10:1236. [PMID: 30874557 PMCID: PMC6420629 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-09155-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2017] [Accepted: 02/23/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Awareness of the human health impacts of exposure to air pollution is growing rapidly. For example, it has become evident that the adverse health effects of air pollution are more pronounced in disadvantaged populations. Policymakers in many jurisdictions have responded to this evidence by enacting initiatives that lead to lower concentrations of air pollutants, such as urban traffic restrictions. In this review, we focus on the interplay between advances in environmental exposure assessment and developments in policy. We highlight recent progress in the granular measurement of air pollutants and individual-level exposures, and how this has enabled focused local policy actions. Finally, we detail an illustrative study designed to link individual-level health-relevant exposures with economic, behavioral, biological, familial, and environmental variables.
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- Andrew Caplin
- School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics, New York University, New York, NY, USA
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- Tandon School of Engineering, Department of Urban Engineering, New York University, New York, NY, USA.
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- NYU School of Medicine, Department of Environmental Medicine, New York University, New York, NY, USA
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- School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics, New York University, New York, NY, USA
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- NYU School of Medicine, Department of Environmental Medicine, New York University, New York, NY, USA
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Messier KP, Chambliss SE, Gani S, Alvarez R, Brauer M, Choi JJ, Hamburg SP, Kerckhoffs J, LaFranchi B, Lunden MM, Marshall JD, Portier CJ, Roy A, Szpiro AA, Vermeulen RCH, Apte JS. Mapping Air Pollution with Google Street View Cars: Efficient Approaches with Mobile Monitoring and Land Use Regression. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2018; 52:12563-12572. [PMID: 30354135 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b03395] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Air pollution measurements collected through systematic mobile monitoring campaigns can provide outdoor concentration data at high spatial resolution. We explore approaches to minimize data requirements for mapping a city's air quality using mobile monitors with "data-only" versus predictive modeling approaches. We equipped two Google Street View cars with 1-Hz instruments to collect nitric oxide (NO) and black carbon (BC) measurements in Oakland, CA. We explore two strategies for efficiently mapping spatial air quality patterns through Monte Carlo analyses. First, we explore a "data-only" approach where we attempt to minimize the number of repeated visits needed to reliably estimate concentrations for all roads. Second, we combine our data with a land use regression-kriging (LUR-K) model to predict at unobserved locations; here, measurements from only a subset of roads or repeat visits are considered. Although LUR-K models did not capture the full variability of on-road concentrations, models trained with minimal data consistently captured important covariates and general spatial air pollution trends, with cross-validation R2 for log-transformed NO and BC of 0.65 and 0.43. Data-only mapping performed poorly with few (1-2) repeated drives but obtained better cross-validation R2 than the LUR-K approach within 4 to 8 repeated drive days per road segment.
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- Kyle P Messier
- Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering , University of Texas at Austin , Austin , Texas 78712 , United States
- Environmental Defense Fund, New York , New York 10010 , United States
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- Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering , University of Texas at Austin , Austin , Texas 78712 , United States
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- Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering , University of Texas at Austin , Austin , Texas 78712 , United States
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- Environmental Defense Fund, New York , New York 10010 , United States
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- School of Population and Public Health , University of British Columbia , Vancouver , British Columbia V6T 1Z3 , Canada
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- Environmental Defense Fund, New York , New York 10010 , United States
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- Environmental Defense Fund, New York , New York 10010 , United States
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- Institute for Risk Assessment Science , Utrecht University , Utrecht 3584 CM , Netherlands
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- Aclima, Inc., 10 Lombard Street , San Francisco , California 94111 , United States
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- Aclima, Inc., 10 Lombard Street , San Francisco , California 94111 , United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering , University of Washington , Seattle , Washington 98195 , United States
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- Environmental Defense Fund, New York , New York 10010 , United States
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- Department of Biostatistics , University of Washington , Seattle , Washington 98195 , United States
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- Institute for Risk Assessment Science , Utrecht University , Utrecht 3584 CM , Netherlands
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- Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering , University of Texas at Austin , Austin , Texas 78712 , United States
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Spatial Patterns in Rush-Hour vs. Work-Week Diesel-Related Pollution across a Downtown Core. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2018; 15:ijerph15091968. [PMID: 30201856 PMCID: PMC6164514 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph15091968] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2018] [Revised: 08/30/2018] [Accepted: 08/31/2018] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Despite advances in monitoring and modelling of intra-urban variation in multiple pollutants, few studies have attempted to separate spatial patterns by time of day, or incorporated organic tracers into spatial monitoring studies. Due to varying emissions sources from diesel and gasoline vehicular traffic, as well as within-day temporal variation in source mix and intensity (e.g., rush-hours vs. full-day measures), accurately assessing diesel-related air pollution within an urban core can be challenging. We allocated 24 sampling sites across downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (2.8 km2) to capture fine-scale variation in diesel-related pollutants, and to compare these patterns by sampling interval (i.e., “rush-hours” vs. “work-week” concentrations), and by season. Using geographic information system (GIS)-based methods, we allocated sampling sites to capture spatial variation in key traffic-related pollution sources (i.e., truck, bus, overall traffic densities). Programmable monitors were used to collect integrated work-week and rush-hour samples of fine particulate matter (PM2.5), black carbon (BC), trace elements, and diesel-related organics (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), hopanes, steranes), in summer and winter 2014. Land use regression (LUR) models were created for PM2.5, BC, total elemental carbon (EC), total organic carbon (OC), elemental (Al, Ca, Fe), and organic constituents (total PAHs, total hopanes), and compared by sampling interval and season. We hypothesized higher pollution concentrations and greater spatial contrast in rush-hour, compared to full work-week samples, with variation by season and pollutant. Rush-hour sampling produced slightly higher total PM2.5 and BC concentrations in both seasons, compared to work-week sampling, but no evident difference in spatial patterns. We also found substantial spatial variability in most trace elements and organic compounds, with comparable spatial patterns using both sampling paradigms. Overall, we found higher concentrations of traffic-related trace elements and organic compounds in rush-hour samples, and higher concentrations of coal-related elements (e.g., As, Se) in work-week samples. Mean bus density was the strongest LUR predictor in most models, in both seasons, under each sampling paradigm. Within each season and constituent, the bus-related terms explained similar proportions of variance in the rush-hour and work-week samples. Rush-hour and work-week LUR models explained similar proportions of spatial variation in pollutants, suggesting that the majority of emissions may be produced during rush-hour traffic across downtown. Results suggest that rush-hour emissions may predominantly shape overall spatial variance in diesel-related pollutants.
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Robinson ES, Gu P, Ye Q, Li HZ, Shah RU, Apte JS, Robinson AL, Presto AA. Restaurant Impacts on Outdoor Air Quality: Elevated Organic Aerosol Mass from Restaurant Cooking with Neighborhood-Scale Plume Extents. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2018; 52:9285-9294. [PMID: 30070466 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b02654] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Organic aerosol (OA) is a major component of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in urban environments. We performed in-motion ambient sampling from a mobile platform with an aerosol mass spectrometer (AMS) to investigate the spatial variability and sources of OA concentrations in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a midsize, largely postindustrial American city. To characterize the relative importance of cooking and traffic sources, we sampled in some of the most populated areas (∼18 km2) in and around Pittsburgh during afternoon rush hour and evening mealtime, including congested highways, major local roads, areas with high densities of restaurants, and urban background locations. We found greatly elevated OA concentrations (10s of μg m-3) in the vicinity of numerous individual restaurants and commercial districts containing multiple restaurants. The AMS mass spectral information indicates that majority of the high concentration plumes (71%) were from cooking sources. Areas containing both busy roads and restaurants had systematically higher OA concentrations than areas with only busy roads and urban background locations. Elevated OA concentrations were measured hundreds of meters downwind of some restaurants, indicating that these sources can influence air quality on neighborhood scales. Approximately 20% of the population (∼250 000 people) in the Pittsburgh area lives within 200 m of a restaurant; therefore, restaurant emissions are potentially an important source of outdoor PM exposures for this large population.
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- Ellis Shipley Robinson
- Department of Mechanical Engineering , Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania 15213 , United States
- Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies , Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania 15213 , United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering , Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania 15213 , United States
- Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies , Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania 15213 , United States
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- Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies , Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania 15213 , United States
- Department of Chemistry , Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania 15213 , United States
- Department of Engineering & Public Policy , Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania 15213 , United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering , Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania 15213 , United States
- Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies , Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania 15213 , United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering , Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania 15213 , United States
- Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies , Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania 15213 , United States
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- Department of Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering , University of Texas at Austin , Austin , Texas 78705 , United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering , Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania 15213 , United States
- Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies , Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania 15213 , United States
- Department of Engineering & Public Policy , Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania 15213 , United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering , Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania 15213 , United States
- Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies , Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania 15213 , United States
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Hudda N, Simon M, Zamore W, Durant JL. Aviation-Related Impacts on Ultrafine Particle Number Concentrations Outside and Inside Residences near an Airport. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2018; 52:1765-1772. [PMID: 29411612 PMCID: PMC5822220 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b05593] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Jet engine exhaust is a significant source of ultrafine particles and aviation-related emissions can adversely impact air quality over large areas surrounding airports. We investigated outdoor and indoor ultrafine particle number concentrations (PNC) from 16 residences located in two study areas in the greater Boston metropolitan area (MA, USA) for evidence of aviation-related impacts. During winds from the direction of Logan International Airport, that is, impact-sector winds, an increase in outdoor and indoor PNC was clearly evident at all seven residences in the Chelsea study area (∼4-5 km from the airport) and three out of nine residences in the Boston study area (∼5-6 km from the airport); the median increase during impact-sector winds compared to other winds was 1.7-fold for both outdoor and indoor PNC. Across all residences during impact-sector and other winds, median outdoor PNC were 19 000 and 10 000 particles/cm3, respectively, and median indoor PNC were 7000 and 4000 particles/cm3, respectively. Overall, our results indicate that aviation-related outdoor PNC infiltrate indoors and result in significantly higher indoor PNC. Our study provides compelling evidence for the impact of aviation-related emissions on residential exposures. Further investigation is warranted because these impacts are not expected to be unique to Logan airport.
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- N. Hudda
- Department
of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts University, 200
College Ave, 204 Anderson Hall, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, United States
- Phone: 617.627.5489; fax: 617.627.3994; e-mail:
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- Department
of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts University, 200
College Ave, 204 Anderson Hall, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, United States
- Department
of Environmental Health, Boston University, 715 Albany Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, United States
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- Somerville
Transportation Equity Partnership, 13 Highland Ave, #3, Somerville, Massachusetts 02143, United States
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- Department
of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts University, 200
College Ave, 204 Anderson Hall, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, United States
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Vedal S, Han B, Xu J, Szpiro A, Bai Z. Design of an Air Pollution Monitoring Campaign in Beijing for Application to Cohort Health Studies. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2017; 14:ijerph14121580. [PMID: 29244738 PMCID: PMC5750998 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph14121580] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2017] [Revised: 12/08/2017] [Accepted: 12/12/2017] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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No cohort studies in China on the health effects of long-term air pollution exposure have employed exposure estimates at the fine spatial scales desirable for cohort studies with individual-level health outcome data. Here we assess an array of modern air pollution exposure estimation approaches for assigning within-city exposure estimates in Beijing for individual pollutants and pollutant sources to individual members of a cohort. Issues considered in selecting specific monitoring data or new monitoring campaigns include: needed spatial resolution, exposure measurement error and its impact on health effect estimates, spatial alignment and compatibility with the cohort, and feasibility and expense. Sources of existing data largely include administrative monitoring data, predictions from air dispersion or chemical transport models and remote sensing (specifically satellite) data. New air monitoring campaigns include additional fixed site monitoring, snapshot monitoring, passive badge or micro-sensor saturation monitoring and mobile monitoring, as well as combinations of these. Each of these has relative advantages and disadvantages. It is concluded that a campaign in Beijing that at least includes a mobile monitoring component, when coupled with currently available spatio-temporal modeling methods, should be strongly considered. Such a campaign is economical and capable of providing the desired fine-scale spatial resolution for pollutants and sources.
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- Sverre Vedal
- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, WA 98105, USA.
- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100112, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100112, China.
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, WA 98105, USA.
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100112, China.
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A Review of Urban Air Pollution Monitoring and Exposure Assessment Methods. ISPRS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEO-INFORMATION 2017. [DOI: 10.3390/ijgi6120389] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Kerckhoffs J, Hoek G, Vlaanderen J, van Nunen E, Messier K, Brunekreef B, Gulliver J, Vermeulen R. Robustness of intra urban land-use regression models for ultrafine particles and black carbon based on mobile monitoring. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2017; 159:500-508. [PMID: 28866382 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2017.08.040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2017] [Revised: 08/04/2017] [Accepted: 08/23/2017] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Land-use regression (LUR) models for ultrafine particles (UFP) and Black Carbon (BC) in urban areas have been developed using short-term stationary monitoring or mobile platforms in order to capture the high variability of these pollutants. However, little is known about the comparability of predictions of mobile and short-term stationary models and especially the validity of these models for assessing residential exposures and the robustness of model predictions developed in different campaigns. We used an electric car to collect mobile measurements (n = 5236 unique road segments) and short-term stationary measurements (3 × 30min, n = 240) of UFP and BC in three Dutch cities (Amsterdam, Utrecht, Maastricht) in 2014-2015. Predictions of LUR models based on mobile measurements were compared to (i) measured concentrations at the short-term stationary sites, (ii) LUR model predictions based on short-term stationary measurements at 1500 random addresses in the three cities, (iii) externally obtained home outdoor measurements (3 × 24h samples; n = 42) and (iv) predictions of a LUR model developed based upon a 2013 mobile campaign in two cities (Amsterdam, Rotterdam). Despite the poor model R2 of 15%, the ability of mobile UFP models to predict measurements with longer averaging time increased substantially from 36% for short-term stationary measurements to 57% for home outdoor measurements. In contrast, the mobile BC model only predicted 14% of the variation in the short-term stationary sites and also 14% of the home outdoor sites. Models based upon mobile and short-term stationary monitoring provided fairly high correlated predictions of UFP concentrations at 1500 randomly selected addresses in the three Dutch cities (R2 = 0.64). We found higher UFP predictions (of about 30%) based on mobile models opposed to short-term model predictions and home outdoor measurements with no clear geospatial patterns. The mobile model for UFP was stable over different settings as the model predicted concentration levels highly correlated to predictions made by a previously developed LUR model with another spatial extent and in a different year at the 1500 random addresses (R2 = 0.80). In conclusion, mobile monitoring provided robust LUR models for UFP, valid to use in epidemiological studies.
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- Jules Kerckhoffs
- Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Division of Environmental Epidemiology, Utrecht University, 3584 CK Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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- Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Division of Environmental Epidemiology, Utrecht University, 3584 CK Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Division of Environmental Epidemiology, Utrecht University, 3584 CK Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Division of Environmental Epidemiology, Utrecht University, 3584 CK Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Dept. of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, USA; Environmental Defense Fund, Austin, TX, USA
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- Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Division of Environmental Epidemiology, Utrecht University, 3584 CK Utrecht, The Netherlands; Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center, University of Utrecht, 3584 CK Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, St Mary's Campus, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Division of Environmental Epidemiology, Utrecht University, 3584 CK Utrecht, The Netherlands; Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center, University of Utrecht, 3584 CK Utrecht, The Netherlands; MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, St Mary's Campus, London, United Kingdom
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