This article is part of the supplement: Proceedings of the Joint Environment and Human Health Programme: Annual Science Day Conference and Workshop .

Research

Identification and verification of ultrafine particle affinity zones in urban neighbourhoods: sample design and data pre-processing

Paul Harris¹ , Sarah Lindley² , Martin Gallagher³ and Raymond Agius⁴

¹  National Centre for Geocomputation, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland, UK

²  School of Environment & Development (Geography), University of Manchester, UK

³  Centre for Atmospheric Science, School of Earth, Atmospheric & Environmental Science, University of Manchester, UK

⁴  Occupational and Environmental Health Research Group, School of Translational Medicine, University of Manchester, UK

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Environmental Health 2009, 8(Suppl 1):S5doi:10.1186/1476-069X-8-S1-S5

Published:	21 December 2009

Abstract

A methodology is presented and validated through which long-term fixed site air quality measurements are used to characterise and remove temporal signals in sample-based measurements which have good spatial coverage but poor temporal resolution. The work has been carried out specifically to provide a spatial dataset of atmospheric ultrafine particle (UFP < 100 nm) data for ongoing epidemiologic cohort analysis but the method is readily transferable to wider epidemiologic investigations and research into the health effects of other pollutant species.