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Estimation of the long-term health effects of air pollution is a challenging task, especially when modelling small-area disease incidence data in an ecological study design. The challenge comes from the unobserved underlying spatial…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-05-24 Duncan Lee , Alastair Rushworth , Sujit K. Sahu

Accurate reporting and forecasting of PM2.5 concentration are important for improving public health. In this paper, we propose a daily prediction method of PM2.5 concentration by using data-driven ordinary differential equation (ODE)…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2018-08-14 Yufang Wang , Haiyan Wang , Shuhua Zhang

Aerosols play a critical role in atmospheric chemistry, and affect clouds, climate, and human health. However, the spatial coverage of satellite-derived aerosol optical depth (AOD) products is limited by cloud cover, orbit patterns, polar…

The Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service provides reanalysis products for atmospheric composition by combining model simulations with satellite observations. The quality of these products depends strongly on the availability of the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Paula Harder , Johannes Flemming

Numerous countries have built urban stations for monitoring the amount of PM2.5 in the atmosphere. In Iraq, there aren't enough stations to monitor PM2.5 pollution levels across all governorates. As a result, satellite remote sensing data…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-03-25 Sabah Hussein Ali , Amina Basil Mohammed

Human health is negatively impacted by poor air quality including increased risk for respiratory and cardiovascular disease. Due to a recent increase in extreme air quality events, both globally and locally in the United States, finer…

Air pollution poses a critical health threat in cities worldwide, with nitrogen dioxide levels in Cork, Ireland exceeding World Health Organization safety standards by up to $278\%$. This study leverages artificial intelligence to predict…

We propose TopoFlow (Topography-aware pollutant Flow learning), a physics-guided neural network for efficient, high-resolution air quality prediction. To explicitly embed physical processes into the learning framework, we identify two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Ammar Kheder , Helmi Toropainen , Wenqing Peng , Samuel Antão , Jia Chen , Michael Boy , Zhi-Song Liu

Many countries are suffering from severe air pollution. Understanding how different air pollutants accumulate and propagate is critical to making relevant public policies. In this paper, we use urban big data (air quality data and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Julie Yixuan Zhu , Chao Zhang , Huichu Zhang , Shi Zhi , Victor O. K. Li , Jiawei Han , Yu Zheng

Land-use regression (LUR) models are important for the assessment of air pollution concentrations in areas without measurement stations. While many such models exist, they often use manually constructed features based on restricted, locally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Michael Steininger , Konstantin Kobs , Albin Zehe , Florian Lautenschlager , Martin Becker , Andreas Hotho

Wildfires are a major producer of fine particulate matter, impacting human health and the electrical grid. Accurately forecasting smoke impacts over long time scales incorporates fuel treatment strategies, natural fuel succession, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Zachary Morrow , Joseph Crockett , John D. Jakeman , Dan J. Krofcheck

Data fusion models are widely used in air quality monitoring to integrate in situ and large-scale gridded products, offering spatially complete and temporally detailed estimates. However, traditional Gaussian-based models often…

Applications · Statistics 2026-05-18 M. Daniela Cuba , Craig Wilkie , Marian Scott , Daniela Castro-Camilo

Spatio-temporal prediction of levels of an environmental exposure is an important problem in environmental epidemiology. Our work is motivated by multiple studies on the spatio-temporal distribution of mobile source, or traffic related,…

Applications · Statistics 2014-11-14 Nikolay Bliznyuk , Christopher J. Paciorek , Joel Schwartz , Brent Coull

The health impact of long-term exposure to air pollution is now routinely estimated using spatial ecological studies, due to the recent widespread availability of spatial referenced pollution and disease data. However, this areal unit study…

Applications · Statistics 2014-12-16 Duncan Lee , Christophe Sarran

Air pollution, especially particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5), is a pressing concern for public health and is difficult to estimate in developing countries (data-poor regions) due to a lack of ground sensors. Transfer learning models can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Shrey Gupta , Yongbee Park , Jianzhao Bi , Suyash Gupta , Andreas Züfle , Avani Wildani , Yang Liu

The health effects of air pollution have been subject to intense study in recent decades. Exposure to pollutants such as airborne particulate matter and ozone has been associated with increases in morbidity and mortality, especially with…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Nitish Nag , Vaibhav Pandey , Likhita Navali , Prateek Mohan , Ramesh Jain

Africa's green industrialization imperative demands reliable infrastructure for monitoring air quality. We present a satellite-reanalysis PM2.5 fusion system trained on 2,068,901 records from 404 monitoring locations in 29 African countries…

Air pollutants pose a significant threat to the environment and human health, thus forecasting accurate pollutant concentrations is essential for pollution warnings and policy-making. Existing studies predominantly focus on single-pollutant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Xu Fan , Zhihao Wang , Yuetan Lin , Yan Zhang , Yang Xiang , Hao Li

This paper presents a data-driven approach to mitigate the effects of air pollution from industrial plants on nearby cities by linking operational decisions with weather conditions. Our method combines predictive and prescriptive machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Dimitris Bertsimas , Leonard Boussioux , Cynthia Zeng

High spatial resolution PM2.5 data covering a long time period are urgently needed to support population exposure assessment and refined air quality management. In this study, we provided complete-coverage PM2.5 predictions with a 1-km…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2022-05-09 Qingyang Xiao , Guannan Geng , Shigan Liu , Jiajun Liu , Xia Meng , Qiang Zhang