Estimation of particulate matter from visibility in Bangkok, Thailand

J Expo Anal Environ Epidemiol. 2001 Mar-Apr;11(2):97-102. doi: 10.1038/sj.jea.7500148.

Abstract

Lack of daily data on airborne particles has been a common problem in an air pollution research. To deal with this problem, a regression model was developed to estimate daily PM10 concentration using visibility in Bangkok from 1992 to 1997, based on 1092 visibility/PM10 pair-observations on low humidity days (humidity < or = 76.5%). Visibility was significantly and inversely associated with PM10 (r = 0.71), after adjusting for minimum temperature and winter indicator variable. The R2 of the model was 0.51.

MeSH terms

  • Air Movements
  • Air Pollution / analysis*
  • Air Pollution / statistics & numerical data
  • Environmental Monitoring / methods
  • Environmental Monitoring / statistics & numerical data*
  • Forecasting
  • Models, Theoretical*
  • Particle Size
  • Regression Analysis
  • Seasons
  • Temperature