How should environmental exposure risk be assessed? A comparison of four methods for exposure assessment of air pollutions

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 166, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 159-167

  Zou, Bin ^a,b  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Exposure estimates; GIS; Model comparison; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY LEVEL; AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY/EPA REGULATORY MODEL; COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; EMISSION SOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES; ESTIMATE MODEL; EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT; EXPOSURE ESTIMATES; GIS; INPUT DATAS; MODEL COMPARISON; MONTHLY SCALE; ORDINARY KRIGING; RISK VALUE;

AIR QUALITY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK PERCEPTION;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GIS; INTERPOLATION; KRIGING; NUMERICAL MODEL; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ACCURACY; AIR POLLUTION; AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY EPA REGULATORY MODEL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMISSION WEIGHTED PROXIMITY MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METHODOLOGY; ORDINARY KRIGING INTERPOLATION; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION; TRADITIONAL PROXIMITY MODEL;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONS; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

EID: 77954143539     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-009-0992-8     Document Type: Article

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