Identification and verification of ultrafine particle affinity zones in urban neighbourhoods: sample design and data pre-processing.
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.
Harris
Paul
P
National Centre for Geocomputation, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, UK. Paul.Harris@nuim.ie
Lindley
Sarah
S
Gallagher
Martin
M
Agius
Raymond
R
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*
D000393:Air Pollutants; D052638:Particulate Matter