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ArticleEnvironmental monitoring and assessment2019

Estimating the daily pollen concentration in the atmosphere using machine learning and NEXRAD weather radar data.

Gebreab K Zewdie, David J Lary, Xun Liu, Daji Wu, Estelle Levetin

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Article in Environmental monitoring and assessment, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Gebreab K ZewdieWilliam B. Hanson Center for Space Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, 75080, USA. gkz130030@utdallas.edu.
David J LaryWilliam B. Hanson Center for Space Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, 75080, USA.
Xun LiuWilliam B. Hanson Center for Space Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, 75080, USA.
Daji WuWilliam B. Hanson Center for Space Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, 75080, USA.
Estelle LevetinThe University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, 74104, USA.
The University of Texas at Dallas · USUniversity of Tulsa · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Millions of people have an allergic reaction to pollen. The impact of pollen allergies is on the rise due to increased pollen levels caused by global warming and the spread of highly invasive weeds. The production, release, and dispersal of pollen depend on the ambient weather conditions. The temperature, rainfall, humidity, cloud cover, and wind are known to affect the amount of pollen in the atmosphere. In the past, various regression techniques have been applied to estimate and forecast the daily pollen concentration in the atmosphere based on the weather conditions. In this research, machine learning methods were applied to the Next Generation Weather Radar (NEXRAD) data to estimate the daily Ambrosia pollen over a 300 km × 300 km region centered on a NEXRAD weather radar. The Neural Network and Random Forest machine learning methods have been employed to develop separate models to estimate Ambrosia pollen over the region. A feasible way of estimating the daily pollen concentration using only the NEXRAD radar data and machine learning methods would lay the foundation to forecast daily pollen at a fine spatial resolution nationally.

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Machine LearningPollenRadarAllergensAntigens, PlantAtmosphereEnvironmental MonitoringForecastingOklahomaPlant ExtractsWeatherAllergensAntigens, PlantPlant Extractsragweed pollenEnvironmental public healthMachine learningNeural networkNEXRADPollenRandom forestWeather

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