Public Health Benefits From Improved Identification of Severe Air Pollution Events With Geostationary Satellite Data.

ABSTRACT: Despite improvements in ambient air quality in the US in recent decades, many people still experience unhealthy levels of pollution. At present, national-level alert-day identification relies predominately on surface monitor networks and forecasters. Satellite-based estimates of surface air quality have rapidly advanced and have the capability to inform exposure-reducing actions to protect public health. At present, we lack a robust framework to quantify public health benefits of these advances in applications of satellite-based atmospheric composition data. Here, we assess possible health benefits of using geostationary satellite data, over polar orbiting satellite data, for identifying particulate air quality alert days (24hr PM_2.5 > 35 μg m^-3) in 2020. We find the

SUBMITTER: O'Dell K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10801669 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature