We additionally evaluated the effect of session-specific meteorology on the associations with local traffic sources by repeating the model-building procedure using the wind-weighted class-specific roadway length variables (200 m buffers).
Environmental parameters, such as the site specific background meteorology and the background photochemistry were also inspected.
For the logical part, we developped a specific DPM by integrating meteorology and weather forecast behaviours.
We built models separately by pollutant, allowing different aspects of traffic, meteorology, and site-specific factors to predict concentrations of different pollutants.
Phytoplankton community analysis was also performed to determine whether taxa associations reflected meteorology-linked aestival succession or specific spatial distributions.
The specific humidity is an extremely useful quantity in meteorology.
LURs should transfer reasonably well between areas with similar land use, meteorology, and pollution source characteristics; however, site-specific models typically outperform transferred models because local predictors and their relationships to emissions may depend on location (e.g., due to differences in fleet composition and emissions, and in the built environment).
Overall, in each city the determinants of indoor dust hopanes were predominantly related to home-specific factors (cleaning, use of AC, shoe removal) and meteorology, except for Windsor where the final model included the length of major roads in a 100m buffer (Table 3).
This may result in inaccuracies, specifically exposure misclassification, as PM10 may vary over a specific area due to expected differences in PM10 levels by the impact of local sources and meteorology.
Meteorological data were provided by Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, Kathmandu.
City-specific confounder models were built for each blood marker separately, adjusting for meteorology and time-varying and time-invariant covariates.
