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ArticleEnvironmental science & technology2016

Combining Land-Use Regression and Chemical Transport Modeling in a Spatiotemporal Geostatistical Model for Ozone and PM2.5.

Meng Wang, Paul D Sampson, Jianlin Hu, Michael Kleeman, Joshua P Keller, Casey Olives, Adam A Szpiro, Sverre Vedal, Joel D Kaufman

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Article in Environmental science & technology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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25 citing papers in PubMed.

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9 authors.

Meng WangDepartment of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington , Seattle, Washington, United States.
Paul D SampsonDepartment of Statistics, University of Washington , Seattle, Washington, United States.
Jianlin HuJiangsu Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Environment Monitoring and Pollution Control, Jiangsu Engineering Technology Research Center of Environmental Cleaning Materials, Collaborative Innovation Center of Atmospheric Environment and Equipment Technology, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology , 219 Ningliu Road, Nanjing 210044, China.
Michael KleemanDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California , Davis, California, United States.
Joshua P KellerDepartment of Biostatistics, University of Washington , Seattle, Washington, United States.
Casey OlivesDepartment of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington , Seattle, Washington, United States.
Adam A SzpiroDepartment of Biostatistics, University of Washington , Seattle, Washington, United States.
Sverre VedalDepartment of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington , Seattle, Washington, United States.
Joel D KaufmanDepartment of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington , Seattle, Washington, United States.

Funding

Biostatistics, Epidemiologic & Bioinformatic Training in Environmental HealthT32ES015459 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI June T. Spector · 2009 to 2026
$10.6M
NIEHS NIH HHS T32 ES015459
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Assessments of long-term air pollution exposure in population studies have commonly employed land-use regression (LUR) or chemical transport modeling (CTM) techniques. Attempts to incorporate both approaches in one modeling framework are challenging. We present a novel geostatistical modeling framework, incorporating CTM predictions into a spatiotemporal LUR model with spatial smoothing to estimate spatiotemporal variability of ozone (O3) and particulate matter with diameter less than 2.5 μm (PM2.5) from 2000 to 2008 in the Los Angeles Basin. The observations include over 9 years' data from more than 20 routine monitoring sites and specific monitoring data at over 100 locations to provide more comprehensive spatial coverage of air pollutants. Our composite modeling approach outperforms separate CTM and LUR models in terms of root-mean-square error (RMSE) assessed by 10-fold cross-validation in both temporal and spatial dimensions, with larger improvement in the accuracy of predictions for O3 (RMSE [ppb] for CTM, 6.6; LUR, 4.6; composite, 3.6) than for PM2.5 (RMSE [μg/m(3)] CTM: 13.7, LUR: 3.2, composite: 3.1). Our study highlights the opportunity for future exposure assessment to make use of readily available spatiotemporal modeling methods and auxiliary gridded data that takes chemical reaction processes into account to improve the accuracy of predictions in a single spatiotemporal modeling framework.

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Air PollutantsAir PollutionEnvironmental MonitoringLos AngelesModels, ChemicalModels, TheoreticalOzoneParticulate MatterAir PollutantsOzoneParticulate Matter

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PMID27074524
PMCPMC5096654

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