Title Information
Title
Understanding Urban Air: The Case for Hyperlocal Air Quality Monitoring
Abstract
Common air quality pollutants such as particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide, and ground- level ozone exhibit immense intra-urban variability. Though they are useful for regulatory compliance, the coarse spatial resolution of government-operated air quality monitoring networks is insufficient for characterizing neighborhood-scale pollution disparities and their related health burdens. Hyperlocal monitoring networks seek to fill in those gaps. In this work, hyperlocal data from the Berkeley Environment, Air-quality, and CO2 Network is utilized to investigate the effects of COVID-19 lockdown measures in Oakland, CA, and to demonstrate the capability of hyperlocal monitoring stations to tease out local pollution sources. Data from the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM)- operated network in the city of Providence collected over the same time period is analyzed to illustrate the inadequacy of compliance monitoring networks for understanding similar perturbations at local scales.
Name: Personal
Name Part
Berg, Grace
Role
Role Term (marcrelator) (authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators", valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/cre")
creator
Name: Personal
Name Part
Hastings, Meredith
Role
Role Term (marcrelator) (authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators", valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ths")
thesis advisor
Name: Personal
Name Part
Timothy, Herbert
Role
Role Term
reader
Name: Personal
Name Part
Walters, Wendell
Role
Role Term
reader
Name: Corporate
Name Part
Brown University. Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
Role
Role Term: Text
sponsor
Origin Information
Copyright Date
2021
Type of Resource (primo)
text_resources
Physical Description
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born digital
Language
Language Term: Text (ISO639-2B) (authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2.html", valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/eng")
English
Note: thesis
Senior thesis (ScB)--Brown University, 2021
Note (displayLabel="Concentration")
Geology-Biology
Genre (aat)
theses
Subject (fast) (authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/00913104")
Topic
Environmental justice
Subject (Local)
Topic
Hyperlocal Air Quality Monitoring
Subject (Local)
Topic
Breathe Providence
Subject (Local)
Topic
Particulate Matter (PM2.5)
Subject (Local)
Topic
ArcGIS
Subject (fast) (authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/00802537")
Topic
Air quality management
Subject (fast) (authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/00802127")
Topic
Air--Pollution--Measurement
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Identifier: DOI
10.26300/hhr5-mf64