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ArticleJournal of the Air & Waste Management Association (1995)2017

A hybrid model for spatially and temporally resolved ozone exposures in the continental United States.

Qian Di, Sebastian Rowland, Petros Koutrakis, Joel Schwartz

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Article in Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association (1995), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 56 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

56 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Qian Dia Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health , Boston , MA , USA.
Sebastian Rowlanda Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health , Boston , MA , USA.
Petros Koutrakisa Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health , Boston , MA , USA.
Joel Schwartza Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health , Boston , MA , USA.

Funding

Translational Research Support CoreP30ES000002 · NIEHS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (SCH OF PUBLIC HLTH) · PI SUSAN A KORRICK · 1985 to 2026
$44.6M
Cardiovascular Health and Air Pollution: A National StudyR01ES024332 · NIEHS · HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI ZANOBETTI, ANTONELLA · 2015 to 2018
$2.5M
Chronic effects of weather fluctuations: population susceptibility and adaptationR21ES024012 · NIEHS · HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI ZANOBETTI, ANTONELLA · 2014 to 2015
$445k
EPA 83587201-0EPA RD83479801HEI 4953-RFA14-3/16-4NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES000002NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES024332NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES024332-01A1NIEHS NIH HHS R21 ES024012
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ground-level ozone is an important atmospheric oxidant, which exhibits considerable spatial and temporal variability in its concentration level. Existing modeling approaches for ground-level ozone include chemical transport models, land-use regression, Kriging, and data fusion of chemical transport models with monitoring data. Each of these methods has both strengths and weaknesses. Combining those complementary approaches could improve model performance. Meanwhile, satellite-based total column ozone, combined with ozone vertical profile, is another potential input. The authors propose a hybrid model that integrates the above variables to achieve spatially and temporally resolved exposure assessments for ground-level ozone. The authors used a neural network for its capacity to model interactions and nonlinearity. Convolutional layers, which use convolution kernels to aggregate nearby information, were added to the neural network to account for spatial and temporal autocorrelation. The authors trained the model with the Air Quality System (AQS) 8-hr daily maximum ozone in the continental United States from 2000 to 2012 and tested it with left out monitoring sites. Cross-validated R IMPLICATIONS: Ozone monitors do not provide full data coverage over the United States, which is an obstacle to assess the health effect of ozone when monitoring data are not available. This paper used a hybrid approach to combine satellite-based ozone measurements, chemical transport model simulations, land-use terms, and other auxiliary variables to obtain spatially and temporally resolved ground-level ozone estimation.

Indexed as

Models, TheoreticalAir PollutantsAir PollutionEnvironmental ExposureEnvironmental MonitoringHumansOzoneUnited StatesAir PollutantsOzone

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PMID27332675
PMCPMC5741295

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