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Particulate air pollution poses a serious health problem to the urban centers in the central Indo-Gangetic plain (IGP) in northern India. Health management planning is constrained by the lack of availability of continuous dataset of particulate matter (PM) at a regional scale. Recently, researchers have established the strength of regression models for estimating PM from satellite-derived aerosol optical depth (AOD) and meteorological factors. The present study is focused on three cities, namely, Agra, Kanpur and Varanasi located in the central IGP. The study envisages four approaches of multi-linear regression modeling to estimate PM10 (particulates smaller than 10 µm) from AOD and the meteorological parameters. The first approach consists of four regional models, three of which estimate regional mean PM10 and the fourth one estimates the distributed PM10. These models have a weak-to-moderate coefficient of determination (R 2 = 0.37–0.63). Spatial and temporal variations in the estimators are separately addressed by the second modeling approach, i.e., city models (CMs) and the third modeling approach, i.e., seasonal models (SMs), respectively. R 2 of these models varies from 0.40 to 0.68. Finally, the spatio-temporal variability of the estimators are addressed by the fourth modeling approach, i.e., city-wise seasonal models (CSMs) which exhibited better results (R 2 = 0.49–0.88). Remarkable variations in the regression estimators of the CSMs are observed both spatially and temporally. The model adequacy checks and the validation studies also support CSMs for more reliable estimation of PM10 in the central IGP. The proposed methodology can, therefore, be reliably used in generating the regional PM10 concentration maps for health impact studies.
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The data of particulate matter and meteorology was provided by Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board, Lucknow (India) and the data of Aerosol Optical Depth (AODMODIS) was provided by Goddard Space flight Center, NASA (USA). The authors highly feel grateful to these organizations for supporting our present research. Special thanks are extended to Mr. Sadbodh Sharma, M.Tech-Geo-informatics student at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, for developing a computer code in MATLAB to retrieve the AODMODIS values. The authors feel highly indebted to Mr. John-Patrick Paraskevas, Doctoral student (Logistics, Business, and Public Policy) at Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, for improving the readability of the manuscript. The authors are also thankful to Dr. Vijaya Lakshmi Sharma for her valuable suggestions which improved the quality of this manuscript. Authors duly acknowledge the support of a research grant from Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board, Lucknow awarded to IET Lucknow for the research project: IET/RD&C/2010-157. One of the authors (Sagnik Dey) also acknowledges the support by research grant from Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, under the network program on ‘climate change and health’ through a research project operational at IIT Delhi (IITD/IRD/RP2726).
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Chitranshi, S., Sharma, S.P. & Dey, S. Spatio-temporal variations in the estimation of PM10 from MODIS-derived aerosol optical depth for the urban areas in the Central Indo-Gangetic Plain. Meteorol Atmos Phys 127, 107–121 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00703-014-0347-z
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