The Potential Impact of Satellite-Retrieved Cloud Parameters on Ground-Level PM

Jessica H Belle, Howard H Chang, Yujie Wang, Xuefei Hu, Alexei Lyapustin, Yang Liu

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

Associations between satellite-derived estimates of PM2.5 species concentrations for organic carbon, elemental carbon, nitrate, and sulfate with birth weight and preterm birth in California during 2005-2014.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2025
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Fine-Scale Air Pollution Models for Epidemiologic Research: Insights From Approaches Developed in the Multi-ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and Air Pollution (MESA Air).Current environmental health reports · 2021
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Estimating PMRemote sensing of environment · 2021
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Impacts of snow and cloud covers on satellite-derived PMRemote sensing of environment · 2019
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6 authors.

Jessica H BelleDepartment of Environmental Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA. jessica.hartmann.belle@emory.edu.

Howard H ChangDepartment of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA. howard.chang@emory.edu.

Yujie WangNASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA. yujie.wang-1@nasa.gov.

Xuefei HuDepartment of Environmental Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA. xuefei.hu@emory.edu.

Alexei LyapustinNASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA. alexei.i.lyapustin@nasa.gov.

Yang LiuDepartment of Environmental Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA. yang.liu@emory.edu.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Satellite-retrieved aerosol optical properties have been extensively used to estimate ground-level fine particulate matter (PM

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Meteorological ConceptsAerosolsAir PollutantsAir PollutionCaliforniaCitiesEnvironmental MonitoringGeorgiaModels, StatisticalParticulate MatterSatellite CommunicationsAerosolsAir PollutantsParticulate Mattercloud propertiesMAIAC AODnon-random missingnessPM2.5RUC/RAP

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PMID29057838

DOI10.3390/ijerph14101244

PMCPMC5664745

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