Geostatistical uncertainty of assessing air quality using high-spatial-resolution lichen data: A health study in the urban area of Sines, Portugal

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 562, Issue , 2016, Pages 740-750

  Ribeiro, Manuel C ^a   Pinho, P ^a,b   Branquinho, C ^b   Llop, Esteve ^b,c   Pereira, Maria J ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Air quality; Birth weight; Geostatistics; Health exposure; Lichens; Simulation

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; EXPOSURE CONTROLS; FUNGI; HEALTH; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INTERPOLATION; LAND USE; POLLUTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AIR QUALITY MONITORING STATIONS; BIRTH WEIGHT; GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL ANALYSIS; GEO-STATISTICS; GEOSTATISTICAL ALGORITHMS; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; LICHENS; SIMULATION;

SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOMONITORING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOSTATISTICS; HEALTH IMPACT; LICHEN; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; URBAN POLLUTION;

ADULT; AIR ANALYSIS; AIR MONITORING; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; INDICATOR ORGANISM; LAND USE; LICHEN (ORGANISM); NONHUMAN; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY; URBAN AREA; WELLBEING; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

PORTUGAL; SETUBAL [PORTUGAL]; SINES;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LICHENS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PORTUGAL;

EID: 84963974352     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.04.081     Document Type: Article

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