Opinion: How will advances in aerosol science inform our understanding of the health impacts of outdoor particulate pollution?

I El Haddad, D Vienneau… - Atmospheric …, 2024 - acp.copernicus.org
Air pollution, characterized by high levels of particulate matter (PM), poses the greatest
environmental threat to human health, causing an estimated 7 million deaths annually and …

[HTML][HTML] Hazard Susceptibility Mapping with Machine and Deep Learning: A Literature Review

AJ Pugliese Viloria, A Folini, D Carrion, MA Brovelli - Remote Sensing, 2024 - mdpi.com
With the increase in climate-change-related hazardous events alongside population
concentration in urban centres, it is important to provide resilient cities with tools for …

Measuring environmental exposures in people's activity space: The need to account for travel modes and exposure decay

L Wei, MP Kwan, R Vermeulen… - Journal of exposure …, 2023 - nature.com
Background Accurately quantifying people's out-of-home environmental exposure is
important for identifying disease risk factors. Several activity space-based exposure …

[HTML][HTML] Estimating daily air temperature and pollution in Catalonia: A comprehensive spatiotemporal modelling of multiple exposures

C Milà, J Ballester, X Basagaña… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Environmental epidemiology studies require models of multiple exposures to adjust for co-
exposure and explore interactions. We estimated spatiotemporal exposure to surface air …

An ensemble mixed spatial model in estimating long-term and diurnal variations of PM2. 5 in Taiwan

PY Wong, HJ Su, SCC Lung, CD Wu - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Meteorology, human activities, and other emission sources drive diurnal cyclic patterns of air
pollution. Previous studies mainly focused on the variation of PM 2.5 concentrations during …

[HTML][HTML] Europe-wide high-spatial resolution air pollution models are improved by including traffic flow estimates on all roads

Y Shen, K de Hoogh, O Schmitz, J Gulliver… - Atmospheric …, 2024 - Elsevier
Road traffic is an important source of noise and air pollution. Modelling of air pollution and
noise therefore requires detailed information on annual average daily traffic (AADT) flows on …

Geographic uncertainties in external exposome studies: A multi-scale approach to reduce exposure misclassification

T Tian, MP Kwan, R Vermeulen, M Helbich - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Many studies on environment-health associations have emphasized that the
selected buffer size (ie, the scale of the geographic context when exposures are assigned at …

[HTML][HTML] Improving traffic-related air pollution estimates by modelling minor road traffic volumes

M Alvarado-Molina, A Curto, AJ Wheeler, R Tham… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Accurately estimating annual average daily traffic (AADT) on minor roads is essential for
assessing traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) exposure, particularly in areas where most …

[HTML][HTML] Development of land use regression, dispersion, and hybrid models for prediction of outdoor air pollution exposure in Barcelona

A Domínguez, P Dadvand, M Cirach, G Arévalo… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Air pollution is the leading environmental risk factor for health. Assessing
outdoor air pollution exposure with detailed spatial and temporal variability in urban areas is …

Spatial and spatiotemporal modelling of intra-urban ultrafine particles: A comparison of linear, nonlinear, regularized, and machine learning methods

J Vachon, S Buteau, Y Liu, K Van Ryswyk… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Machine learning methods are proposed to improve the predictions of ambient
air pollution, yet few studies have compared ultrafine particles (UFP) models across a broad …