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Air Pollution Costs In Ukraine, Elena Strukova, Alexander Golub, Anil Markandya
Air Pollution Costs In Ukraine, Elena Strukova, Alexander Golub, Anil Markandya
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Working Papers
The paper presents estimation of the health losses from urban air pollution in Ukraine. The methodology developed by US EPA and adjusted in Russia for Eastern European transition countries was applied for health risk assessment. PM2.5 was identified as the major source of human health risk, based on experience from the Russian studies. In the absence of reliable computed concentrations of PM2.5, the study was based on monitoring data of total suspended particle (TSP) emissions in Ukraine. Additional cases of mortality and morbidity were calculated based on reporting data on TSP concentration that was recalculated into PM2.5. Then the concentration–response …
Sinusoidal Modeling Applied To Spatially Variant Tropospheric Ozone Air Pollution, Nicholas Z. Muller, Peter C.B. Phillips
Sinusoidal Modeling Applied To Spatially Variant Tropospheric Ozone Air Pollution, Nicholas Z. Muller, Peter C.B. Phillips
Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers
This paper demonstrates how parsimonious models of sinusoidal functions can be used to fit spatially variant time series in which there is considerable variation of a periodic type. A typical shortcoming of such tools relates to the difficulty in capturing idiosyncratic variation in periodic models. The strategy developed here addresses this deficiency. While previous work has sought to overcome the shortcoming by augmenting sinusoids with other techniques, the present approach employs station-specific sinusoids to supplement a common regional component, which succeeds in capturing local idiosyncratic behavior in a parsimonious manner. The experiments conducted herein reveal that a semi-parametric approach enables …