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Relationship Between PM2.5 Collected at Residential Outdoor Locations and a Central Site
Citation:
GEORGE, B. J., D. A. WHITAKER, R. C. GILLIAM, J. SWALL, AND R. W. WILLIAMS. Relationship Between PM2.5 Collected at Residential Outdoor Locations and a Central Site. JOURNAL OF AIR AND WASTE MANAGEMENT. Air & Waste Management Association, Pittsburgh, PA, 60(9):1094-1104, (2010).
Impact/Purpose:
The National Exposure Research Laboratory′s (NERL) Human Exposure and Atmospheric Sciences Division (HEASD) conducts research in support of EPA′s mission to protect human health and the environment. HEASD′s research program supports Goal 1 (Clean Air) and Goal 4 (Healthy People) of EPA′s strategic plan. More specifically, our division conducts research to characterize the movement of pollutants from the source to contact with humans. Our multidisciplinary research program produces Methods, Measurements, and Models to identify relationships between and characterize processes that link source emissions, environmental concentrations, human exposures, and target-tissue dose. The impact of these tools is improved regulatory programs and policies for EPA.
Description:
Regression models are developed to describe the relationship between ambient PM2.5 (particulate matter [PM] ≤ 2.5 μm in aerodynamic diameter) mass concentrations measured at a central-site monitor with those at residential outdoor monitors. Understanding the determinants and magnitude of variability and uncertainty in this relationship is critical for understanding personal exposures in the evaluation of epidemiological data. The repeated measures regression models presented here address temporal and spatial characteristics of data measured in the 2004–2007 Detroit Exposure and Aerosol Research Study, and they take into account missing data and other data features. The models incorporate turbulence kinetic energy and planetary boundary layer height, meteorological data that are not routinely considered in models that relate central-site concentrations to exposure to health effects. It was found that turbulence kinetic energy was highly statistically significant in explaining the relationship of PM2.5 measured at a particular stationary outdoor air monitoring site with PM2.5 measured outside nearby residences for the temporal coverage of the data.
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Relationship Between PM2.5 Collected at Residential Outdoor Locations and a Central Site (PDF, NA pp, 6675 KB, about PDF)Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association
