Mobile Air Monitoring: Measuring Change in Air Quality in the City of Hamilton, 2005-2010

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 351-364

  Adams, Matthew D ^a   DeLuca, Patrick F ^a   Corr, Denis ^b,c   Kanaroglou, Pavlos S ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Rotek Environmental Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Air quality; Mobile monitoring; Spatial analysis; Stationary monitoring

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARBON MONOXIDE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NITROGEN OXIDES; PARTICULATE MATTER; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

CANADA; HAMILTON [ONTARIO]; ONTARIO [CANADA];

EID: 84864386078     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-012-0061-5     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Atkinson, R., Cohen, A. J., Carrington, J. C., & Anderson, H. R. (2006). Worldwide spatial variation in daily mortality relative rates due to short-term exposure to air pollution: A meta-analysis. Epidemiology, 17(6), S19.
2. Brunekreef, B. (1997). Air pollution and life expectancy: Is there a relation? Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 54, 781-784.
3. Buzzelli, M., Jerrett, M., Burnett, R., & Finklestein, N. (2003). Spatiotemporal perspectives on air pollution and environmental justice in Hamilton, Canada, 1985-1996. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 93(3), 557-573.
4. Chiusolo, M., Cadum, E., Stafoggia, M., Galassi, C., Berti, G., Faustini, A., et al. (2011). Short term effects of nitrogen dioxide on mortality and susceptibility factors in 10 Italian cities: The EpiAir study. Environmental Health Perspectives, 119, 1233-1238.
5. City of Hamilton. (2010). Hamilton economic development strategy, 2010-2015. http://www. investinhamilton. ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Hamilton-EcDev-Strategy2010. pdf. Accessed 2012.
6. City of Hamilton. (2011). One billion-economic development review 2010. http://www. investinhamilton. ca/onebillion/. Accessed 2012.
7. Coyle, D., Stieb, D., Burnett, R. T., DeCivitab, P., Krewskic, D., Chen, Y., et al. (2003). Impact of particulate air pollution on quality-adjusted life expectancy in Canada. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health Part A: Current Issues, 66(16-19), 1847-1863.
8. Csardi, G., & Nepusz, T. (2006). The igraph software package for complex network research, InterJournalComplex Systems 1695. http://igraph. sf. net. Accessed 2012.
9. DeLuca, P. F., Corr, D., Wallace, J., & Kanaroglou, P. (2012). Effective mitigation efforts to reduce road dust near industrial sites: Assessment by mobile pollution surveys. Journal of Environmental Management, 98, 112-118.
10. Dominici, F., Peng, R. D., Bell, M. L., Pham, L., McDermott, A., Zeger, S. L., et al. (2006). Fine particulate air pollution and hospital admission for cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. JAMA, 295(10), 1127-1134.
11. Environment Canada. (2011a). Acts, regulations and agreements. http://www. ec. gc. ca/default. asp?lang=En&n=48D356C1-1. Accessed September 2011.
12. Environment Canada. (2011b). Criteria air contaminant emission summaries, http://ec. gc. ca/pdb/websol/emissions/ap/ap_query_e. cfm. Accessed January 2012.
13. Environment Canada. (2011c). National pollutant release inventory (NPRI) facility location table. http://www. ec. gc. ca/inrp-npri/default. asp?lang=En& n=20DE1DC2-1. Accessed February 2012.
14. Finkelstein, M. M., Jerrett, M., DeLuca, P., Finkelstein, N., Verma, D. K., Chapman, K., et al. (2003). Relation between income, air pollution and mortality: A cohort study. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 169(5), 397-402.
15. Finkelstein, M. M., Jerrett, M., & Sears, M. R. (2004). Traffic air pollution and mortality rate advancement periods. American Journal of Epidemiology, 160, 173-177.
16. Hamilton Air Monitoring Network. (2010). Annual air quality report 2010. http://www. hamnair. ca/uploads/HAMN-2010-Annual-Report. pdf. Accessed January 2012.
17. Jerrett, M., Burnett, R. T., Brook, J., Kanaroglou, P., Giovis, C., Finkelstein, N., et al. (2004). Do socioeconomic characteristics modify the short term association between air pollution and mortality? Evidence from a zonal time series in Hamilton, Canada. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 58, 31-40.
18. Jerrett, M., Burnett, R. T., Kanaroglou, P., Eyles, J., Finkelstein, N., Giovis, C., et al. (2001). A GIS-environmental justice analysis of particulate air pollution in Hamilton, Canada. Environment and Planning A, 33, 955-973.
19. Kampa, M., & Castanas, E. (2008). Human health effects of air pollution. Environmental Pollution, 151, 362-367.
20. Kan, H., Wong, C. M., Vichit-Vadakan, N., & Quan, Z. (2010). Short-term association between sulfur dioxide and daily mortality: The public health and air pollution in Asia (PAPA) study. Environmental Research, 110, 258-264.
21. Larson, T., Henderson, S. B., & Brauer, M. (2009). Mobile monitoring of particle light absorption coefficient in an urban area as a basis for land use regression. Environmental Science and Technology, 43, 4672-4678.
22. Medina-Ramón, M., Zanobetti, A., & Schwartz, J. (2006). The effect of ozone and PM10 on hospital admissions for pneumonia and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A national multicity study. American Journal of Epidemiology, 163, 579-588.
23. Neupane, B., Jerrett, M., Burnett, R. T., Marrie, T., Arain, A., & Loeb, M. (2010). Long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and risk of hospitalization with community-acquired pneumonia in older adults. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 181, 47-53.
24. Nevalainen, J., & Pekkanen, J. (1998). The effect of particulate air pollution on life expectancy. Science of the Total Environment, 217(1-2), 137-141.
25. OMOE. Ontario Ministry of the Environment. (2011). Historical air quality pollutant data. http://www. airqualityontario. com/science/data_sets. php. Accessed December 2011.
26. Pope, C. A., III, & Dockery, D. W. (2006). Health effects of fine particulate air pollution: Lines that connect. Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association, 56, 709-742.
27. Pope, C. A., III, Ezzati, M., & Dockery, D. W. (2009). Fine-particulate air pollution and life expectancy in the United States. New England Journal of Medicine, 360, 376-386.
28. R Development Core Team. (2011). R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R foundation for statistical computing, Vienna, Austria. ISBN 3-900051-07-0, URL http://www. R-project. org/.
29. Sahsuvaroglu, T., Arain, A., Kanaroglou, P., Finkelstein, N., Newbold, B., Jerrett, M., et al. (2006). A land use regression model for predicting ambient concentrations of nitrogen dioxide in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association, 56, 1059-1069.
30. Sanhueza, P., Pizarro, J., Vargas, C., Torreblanca, M., & Passalacqua, M. (2010). Health risk estimation due to carbon monoxide pollution at different spatial levels in Santiago, Chile. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 167, 165-173.
31. Statistics Canada. (2012). Population and dwelling counts, for Canada and census subdivisions (municipalities), 2011 and 2006 censuses. http://www12. statcan. gc. ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/hlt-fst/pd-pl/Table-Tableau. cfm?LANG=Eng&T=301&S=3&O=D. Accessed 2012.
32. Vardoulakis, S., Gonzalez-Flesca, N., Fisher, B. E. A., & Pericleous, K. (2005). Spatial variability of air pollution in the vicinity of a permanent monitoring station in central Paris. Atmospheric Environment, 39(15), 2725-2763.
33. Wallace, J., Corr, D., DeLuca, P., Kanaroglou, P., & McCarry, B. (2009). Mobile monitoring of air pollution in cities: The case of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Journal of Environmental Monitoring, 11(5), 998-1003.
34. Wallace, J., Corr, D., & Kanaroglou, P. (2010). Topographic and spatial impacts of temperature inversions on air quality using mobile air pollution surveys. Science of the Total Environment, 21, 5086-5098.
35. Zwack, L. M., Paciorek, C. J., Spengler, J. D., & Levy, J. I. (2011). Modeling spatial patterns of traffic-related air pollutants in complex urban Terrain. Environmental Health Perspectives, 119(6), 852-859.