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Pragmatic estimation of a spatio-temporal air quality model with irregular monitoring data

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Author

  • Paul D. Sampson
  • Adam A. Szpiro
  • Lianne Sheppard
  • Johan Lindström
  • Joel D. Kaufman

Summary, in English

Statistical analyses of health effects of air pollution have increasingly used GIS-based covariates for prediction of ambient air quality in "land use" regression models. More recently these spatial regression models have accounted for spatial correlation structure in combining monitoring data with land use covariates. We present a flexible spatio-temporal modeling framework and pragmatic, multi-step estimation procedure that accommodates essentially arbitrary patterns of missing data with respect to an ideally complete space by time matrix of observations on a network of monitoring sites. The methodology incorporates a model for smooth temporal trends with coefficients varying in space according to Partial Least Squares regressions on a large set of geographic covariates and nonstationary modeling of spatio-temporal residuals from these regressions. This work was developed to provide spatial point predictions of PM2.5 concentrations for the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and Air Pollution (MESA Air) using irregular monitoring data derived from the AQS regulatory monitoring network and supplemental short-time scale monitoring campaigns conducted to better predict intra-urban variation in air quality. We demonstrate the interpretation and accuracy of this methodology in modeling data from 2000 through 2006 in six U.S. metropolitan areas and establish a basis for likelihood-based estimation. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Publishing year

2011

Language

English

Pages

6593-6606

Publication/Series

Atmospheric Environment

Volume

45

Issue

36

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Elsevier

Topic

  • Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences

Keywords

  • Exposure estimation
  • Hierarchical model
  • Nonstationary spatial
  • covariance
  • Partial least squares
  • Particulate matter
  • Universal kriging

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1352-2310