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As a huge threat to the public health, China's air pollution has attracted extensive attention and continues to grow in tandem with the economy. Although the real-time air quality report can be utilized to update our knowledge on air…

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Public transit is a critical component of urban mobility and equity, yet mobility and air-quality linkages are rarely operationalized in reproducible smart-city analytics workflows. This study develops a transparent, multi-source monitoring…

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The first goal of this study is to quantify the magnitude and spatial variability of air quality changes in the US during the COVID-19 pandemic. We focus on two federally regulated pollutants, nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and fine particulate…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-06-30 Cristina L. Archer , Guido Cervone , Maryam Golbazi , Nicolas Al Fahel , Carolynne Hultquist

Background: On March 19, 2020, the government of California ordered all 40 million Californians to stay at home in the coming weeks as the result of the escalation of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. As lockdowns were…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-11-03 Jiani Yang , Yuan Wang , Joseph Pinto , Le Kuai , King-Fai Li , Stanley P Sander , Yuk L Yung

In the context of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, several reports and studies have attempted to model and predict the spread of the disease. There is also intense debate about policies for limiting the damage, both to health and to the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-05-04 Harshad Khadilkar , Tanuja Ganu , Deva P Seetharam

Air pollution is a pressing environmental risk to public health, particularly in cities where population density and pollution levels are high. Traditional methods for exposure analysis often rely on census data, but recent studies…

Air pollution (AP) poses a great threat to human health, and people are paying more attention than ever to its prediction. Accurate prediction of AP helps people to plan for their outdoor activities and aids protecting human health. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Iat Hang Fong , Tengyue Li , Simon Fong , Raymond K. Wong , Antonio J. Tallón-Ballesteros

Data used to assess acute health effects from air pollution typically have good temporal but poor spatial resolution or the opposite. A modified longitudinal model was developed that sought to improve resolution in both domains by bringing…

Applications · Statistics 2013-12-02 Lixun Zhang , Yongtao Guan , Brian P. Leaderer , Theodore R. Holford

Exposure assessment is fundamental to air pollution cohort studies. The objective is to predict air pollution exposures for study subjects at locations without data in order to optimize our ability to learn about health effects of air…

Applications · Statistics 2024-06-05 Si Cheng , Magali N. Blanco , Lianne Sheppard , Ali Shojaie , Adam Szpiro

Air pollution has been a long-existing problem for most of the major metropolitan cities of the world. Several measures including strict climate laws and reduction in the number of vehicles were implemented by several nations. However, in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-07-29 Dewansh Kaloni , Yee Hui Lee , Soumyabrata Dev

For hourly PM2.5 concentration prediction, accurately capturing the data patterns of external factors that affect PM2.5 concentration changes, and constructing a forecasting model is one of efficient means to improve forecasting accuracy.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-08 Fuxin Jiang , Chengyuan Zhang , Shaolong Sun , Jingyun Sun

Climate change and the rapid growth of urban populations are intensifying environmental stresses within cities, making the behavior of urban atmospheric flows a critical factor in public health, energy use, and overall livability. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Nishant Kumar , Franck Kerhervé , Lionel Agostini , Laurent Cordier

Very unhealthy air quality is consistently connected with numerous diseases. Appropriate extreme analysis and accurate predictions are in rising demand for exploring potential linked causes and for providing suggestions for the…

Applications · Statistics 2023-08-25 Kai Wang , Chengxiu Ling , Ying Chen , Zhengjun Zhang

Environmental air quality affects people's life, obtaining real-time and accurate environmental air quality has a profound guiding significance for the development of social activities. At present, environmental air quality measurement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Zhenyu Wang , Wei Zheng , Chunfeng Song

Urban pollution poses serious health risks, particularly in relation to traffic-related air pollution, which remains a major concern in many cities. Vehicle emissions contribute to respiratory and cardiovascular issues, especially for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Sen Yan , David J. O'Connor , Xiaojun Wang , Noel E. O'Connor , Alan F. Smeaton , Mingming Liu

Machine learning (ML) requires using energy to carry out computations during the model training process. The generation of this energy comes with an environmental cost in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, depending on quantity used and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Alexandra Sasha Luccioni , Alex Hernandez-Garcia

Spectral analysis characterises oscillatory time series behaviours such as cycles, but accurate estimation requires reasonable numbers of observations. Current COVID-19 time series for many countries are short: pre- and post-lockdown series…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-04-17 Guy P. Nason

Depending on energy sources and demand, the carbon intensity of the public power grid fluctuates over time. Exploiting this variability is an important factor in reducing the emissions caused by data centers. However, regional differences…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Philipp Wiesner , Ilja Behnke , Dominik Scheinert , Kordian Gontarska , Lauritz Thamsen

The development of low-cost sensors and novel calibration algorithms offer new opportunities to supplement existing regulatory networks to measure air pollutants at a high spatial resolution and at hourly and sub-hourly timescales. We use a…

Poor air quality has become an increasingly critical challenge for many metropolitan cities, which carries many catastrophicphysical and mental consequences on human health and quality of life. However, accurately monitoring and forecasting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-03 Qi Zhang , Jacqueline CK Lam , Victor OK Li , Yang Han