title: Identification and verification of ultrafine particle affinity zones in urban neighbourhoods: sample design and data pre-processing.
abstract: A methodology is presented and validated through which long-term fixed site air quality measurements are used to characterise and remove temporal signals in sample-based measurements which have good spatial coverage but poor temporal resolution. The work has been carried out specifically to provide a spatial dataset of atmospheric ultrafine particle (UFP < 100 nm) data for ongoing epidemiologic cohort analysis but the method is readily transferable to wider epidemiologic investigations and research into the health effects of other pollutant species.
authors.affiliation: National Centre for Geocomputation, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, UK. Paul.Harris@nuim.ie
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Harris
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lindley
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gallagher
authors.forename: Raymond
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Agius
mesh_terms: D000393:Air Pollutants / Q000032:analysis*; D002947:Cities; D003625:Data Collection; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods*; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010316:Particle Size; D052638:Particulate Matter / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D000393:Air Pollutants; D052638:Particulate Matter