Design and evaluation of short-term monitoring campaigns for long-term air pollution exposure assessment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Short-term mobile monitoring campaigns to estimate long-term air pollution levels are becoming increasingly common. Still, many campaigns have not conducted temporally-balanced sampling, and few have looked at the implications of such study designs for epidemiologic exposure assessment.

Objective

We carried out a simulation study using fixed-site air quality monitors to better understand how different short-term monitoring designs impact the resulting exposure surfaces.

Methods

We used Monte Carlo resampling to simulate three archetypal short-term monitoring sampling designs using oxides of nitrogen (NOx) monitoring data from 69 regulatory sites in California: a year-around Balanced Design that sampled during all seasons of the year, days of the week, and a

SUBMITTER: Blanco MN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9971335 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature