Spatiotemporal trends of PM concentrations in central China from 2003 to 2018 based on MAIAC-derived high-resolution data.

Spatiotemporal trends of PM concentrations in central China from 2003 to 2018 based on MAIAC-derived high-resolution data.

He, Qingqing;Gu, Yefu;Zhang, Ming;
Environment international 2020 Vol. 137 pp. 105536
181
he2020spatiotemporalenvironment

Abstract

Long-term PM levels with high precision at fine spatiotemporal resolution are essential for quantitatively understanding the health risk of exposure to ambient fine particulate matter (PM) and making effective air pollution control policies. The emerging statistically derived PM estimations from satellite remote sensing observations of aerosol optical depth (AOD) data are an effective alternative to reconstruct global, long-term, high spatiotemporal resolution PM information. However, studies on PM estimation and its application to exposure and health-related studies are limited in China due to the lack of historical in-situ measurements before 2013. In this study, we explored the long-term trends of PM exposure in central China, a hotspot that has recently been experiencing severe particulate pollution, at the local scale. We first developed a spatiotemporal model incorporating periodical characteristics within the data to estimate daily concentrations of historical PM at a fine scale of 1 km for 2003-2018. The linear effects of predictors including AOD, meteorological and land-use parameters and the non-linear interaction between AOD and meteorological parameters were considered in the modeling process. The most recently released high-resolution satellite aerosol product, Multi-Angle Implementation of Atmospheric Correction (MAIAC) was used to help to represent the fine-scale particle gradients. Our daily estimates correlated well with in-situ observations (cross-validation R = 0.59), achieving precision comparable to previous statistical models. Through linking with gridded demographic data, the population-weighted PM average during 2003 to 2018 was found to be high (62.23 μg/m for the whole domain) with obvious spatial variations and seasonality. An inverse U pattern was seen in the time series, with two inflection points around 2008 and 2015. Our model provides reliable particulate information with high spatial resolution and long-term temporal coverage, which can inform local-scale PM-related epidemiological studies and health-risk assessments for central China.

Citation

ID: 93384
Ref Key: he2020spatiotemporalenvironment
Use this key to autocite in SciMatic or Thesis Manager

References

Blockchain Verification

Account:
NFT Contract Address:
0x95644003c57E6F55A65596E3D9Eac6813e3566dA
Article ID:
93384
Unique Identifier:
S0160-4120(19)32951-4
Network:
Scimatic Chain (ID: 481)
Loading...
Blockchain Readiness Checklist
Authors
Abstract
Journal Name
Year
Title
5/5
Creates 1,000,000 NFT tokens for this article
Token Features:
  • ERC-1155 Standard NFT
  • 1 Million Supply per Article
  • Transferable via MetaMask
  • Permanent Blockchain Record
Blockchain QR Code
Scan with Saymatik Web3.0 Wallet

Saymatik Web3.0 Wallet