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A hybrid approach to estimating national scale spatiotemporal variability of PM2.5 in the contiguous United States.

ABSTRACT: Airborne fine particulate matter exhibits spatiotemporal variability at multiple scales, which presents challenges to estimating exposures for health effects assessment. Here we created a model to predict ambient particulate matter less than 2.5 ?m in aerodynamic diameter (PM2.5) across the contiguous United States to be applied to health effects modeling. We developed a hybrid approach combining a land use regression model (LUR) selected with a machine learning method, and Bayesian Maximum Entropy (BME) interpolation of the LUR space-time residuals. The PM2.5 data set included 104,172 monthly observations at 1464 monitoring locations with approximately 10% of locations reserved for cross-validation. LUR models were based on remote sensing estimates of PM2.5, land use and traffic indicators. Normalized cross-validated R(2) values for LUR were 0.63 and 0.11 with and without remote sensing, respectively, suggesting remote sensing is a strong predictor of ground-level concentrations. In the models including the BME interpolation of the residuals, cross-validated R(2) were 0.79 for both configurations; the model without remotely sensed data described more fine-scale variation than the model including remote sensing. Our results suggest that our modeling framework can predict ground-level concentrations of PM2.5 at multiple scales over the contiguous U.S.

SUBMITTER: Beckerman BS

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3976544 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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A hybrid approach to estimating national scale spatiotemporal variability of PM2.5 in the contiguous United States.

Beckerman Bernardo S BS Jerrett Michael M Serre Marc M Martin Randall V RV Lee Seung-Jae SJ van Donkelaar Aaron A Ross Zev Z Su Jason J Burnett Richard T RT

Environmental science & technology 20130611 13

Airborne fine particulate matter exhibits spatiotemporal variability at multiple scales, which presents challenges to estimating exposures for health effects assessment. Here we created a model to predict ambient particulate matter less than 2.5 μm in aerodynamic diameter (PM2.5) across the contiguous United States to be applied to health effects modeling. We developed a hybrid approach combining a land use regression model (LUR) selected with a machine learning method, and Bayesian Maximum Entr ...[more]

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A hybrid approach to estimating national scale spatiotemporal variability of PM2.5 in the contiguous United States.

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