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Where should ozone be measured? It is well accepted that high levels of ozone are not only damaging to human health but also reduce crop yield and damage vegetation.1 However, the continuous measurement of ozone at a location is relatively expensive and so the number and locations of instruments need to be chosen judiciously. This question, although deceptively simple, raises a host of fundamental issues. Most importantly, how can we infer ozone levels at places where measurements are not made? What does it mean to measure ozone well and how many monitoring instruments are really necessary?
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Nychka, D., Saltzman, N. (1998). Design of Air-Quality Monitoring Networks. In: Nychka, D., Piegorsch, W.W., Cox, L.H. (eds) Case Studies in Environmental Statistics. Lecture Notes in Statistics, vol 132. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2226-2_4
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