ArticleEnvironmental research communications2026
XIS-humidity: a daily spatiotemporal machine-learning model for dew point in the contiguous United States.
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Health effects of humidity are theoretically important but have appeared inconsistently in epidemiological studies. Better measures of humidity may help. We construct a machine-learning model of dew point covering the US from 2003 through 2024, using the same XGBoost-IDW synthesis (XIS) framework as our previously published models of temperature and particulate matter. XIS-Humidity predicts three daily variables at high spatial resolution: mean humidity; T-min humidity (the humidity observed when temperature is at its minimum); and T-max humidity (similarly, for maximum temperature). In 2024, we obtain RMSEs of 1.30 K for mean humidity, 1.72 K for T-min, and 2.07 K for T-max, compared to SDs above 10 K. For mean humidity, as well as a metric of heat index computed with the help of XIS-Temperature, XIS-Humidity is more accurate than two competing models (NLDAS-2 and PRISM) in most years. We also find a greater association of social vulnerability with heat index when using XIS. Compared to previous models of humidity or heat index, XIS-Humidity should allow for more accurate and sophisticated analyses in the epidemiology of humidity and temperature.
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