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ARPA-E
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About: ARPA-E is a government organization based out in Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Climate change. The organization has 1161 authors who have published 1267 publications receiving 30049 citations. The organization is also known as: Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy.
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Utrecht University1, Imperial College London2, Karolinska Institutet3, Vytautas Magnus University4, University of Hasselt5, Flemish Institute for Technological Research6, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens7, University of California, Berkeley8, University of Basel9, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute10, National Institutes of Health11, University of Manchester12, Norwegian Institute of Public Health13, University of Duisburg-Essen14, ARPA-E15, University of Washington16
TL;DR: Careful selection of monitoring sites, examination of influential observations and skewed variable distributions were essential for developing stable LUR models, which are used to estimate air pollution concentrations at the home addresses of participants in the health studies involved in ESCAPE.
Abstract: Land Use Regression (LUR) models have been used increasingly for modeling small-scale spatial variation in air pollution concentrations and estimating individual exposure for participants of cohort studies. Within the ESCAPE project, concentrations of PM(2.5), PM(2.5) absorbance, PM(10), and PM(coarse) were measured in 20 European study areas at 20 sites per area. GIS-derived predictor variables (e.g., traffic intensity, population, and land-use) were evaluated to model spatial variation of annual average concentrations for each study area. The median model explained variance (R(2)) was 71% for PM(2.5) (range across study areas 35-94%). Model R(2) was higher for PM(2.5) absorbance (median 89%, range 56-97%) and lower for PM(coarse) (median 68%, range 32- 81%). Models included between two and five predictor variables, with various traffic indicators as the most common predictors. Lower R(2) was related to small concentration variability or limited availability of predictor variables, especially traffic intensity. Cross validation R(2) results were on average 8-11% lower than model R(2). Careful selection of monitoring sites, examination of influential observations and skewed variable distributions were essential for developing stable LUR models. The final LUR models are used to estimate air pollution concentrations at the home addresses of participants in the health studies involved in ESCAPE.
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Utrecht University1, Imperial College London2, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens3, University of Washington4, University of Basel5, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute6, University of Verona7, University of Crete8, National Institutes of Health9, University of Augsburg10, Vytautas Magnus University11, University of Manchester12, Norwegian Institute of Public Health13, ARPA-E14, University of Düsseldorf15, University of Duisburg-Essen16, Karolinska Institutet17, Umeå University18, Flemish Institute for Technological Research19, University of Hasselt20, University of California, Berkeley21
TL;DR: In this article, the authors estimate within-city variability in air pollution concentrations using Land Use Regression (LUR) models and show that LUR models are able to explain small-scale within city variations.
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TL;DR: The pan-Alpine grid dataset as discussed by the authors was developed as part of the EU-funded EURO4M project and is freely available for scientific use, with 5500 measurements per day on average, spanning the period 1971-2008.
Abstract: In the region of the European Alps, national and regional meteorological services operate rain-gauge networks, which together, constitute one of the densest in situ observation systems in a large-scale high-mountain region. Data from these networks are consistently analyzed, in this study, to develop a pan-Alpine grid dataset and to describe the region's mesoscale precipitation climate, including the occurrence of heavy precipitation and long dry periods. The analyses are based on a collation of high-resolution rain-gauge data from seven Alpine countries, with 5500 measurements per day on average, spanning the period 1971–2008. The dataset is an update of an earlier version with improved data density and more thorough quality control. The grid dataset has a grid spacing of 5 km, daily time resolution, and was constructed with a distance-angular weighting scheme that integrates climatological precipitation–topography relationships. Scales effectively resolved in the dataset are coarser than the grid spacing and vary in time and space, depending on station density. We quantify the uncertainty of the dataset by cross-validation and in relation to topographic complexity, data density and season. Results indicate that grid point estimates are systematically underestimated (overestimated) at large (small) precipitation intensities, when they are interpreted as point estimates. Our climatological analyses highlight interesting variations in indicators of daily precipitation that deviate from the pattern and course of mean precipitation and illustrate the complex role of topography. The daily Alpine precipitation grid dataset was developed as part of the EU funded EURO4M project and is freely available for scientific use.
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Utrecht University1, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute2, University of Basel3, University of Washington4, University of Augsburg5, Imperial College London6, University of Manchester7, Vytautas Magnus University8, National Technical University of Athens9, University of Düsseldorf10, University of Crete11, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens12, National Institutes of Health13, Norwegian Institute of Public Health14, ARPA-E15, University of Ulm16
TL;DR: The ESCAPE study as discussed by the authors investigated the relationship between long-term exposure to outdoor air pollution and health using cohort studies across Europe, and found substantial variability in spatial patterns of PM2.5, PM10 and PMcoarse.
371 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, a new approach (called QBS index) based on the types of edaphic microarthropods has been proposed to assess soil biological quality, which is based on micro-thropod groups present in a soil sample.
356 citations
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Antonio Russo | 88 | 934 | 34563 |
John V. Guttag | 62 | 254 | 17679 |
Mauro Rossi | 56 | 407 | 13056 |
Gianpaolo Balsamo | 54 | 131 | 31691 |
David Evans | 52 | 130 | 13455 |
Barbara Stenni | 44 | 148 | 10859 |
Luigi Bisanti | 42 | 104 | 8560 |
Marco Fontana | 42 | 384 | 7526 |
Andrea Ranzi | 42 | 101 | 8090 |
Dario Mirabelli | 37 | 127 | 3842 |
Marco Turco | 32 | 78 | 2709 |
Stefania La Grutta | 31 | 141 | 2691 |
Maurizio Forte | 28 | 135 | 2962 |
Gianluigi de Gennaro | 28 | 86 | 2853 |
Giovanni Martinelli | 27 | 104 | 2439 |