Daily census tract-level wildfire fine particulate matter concentrations for California, 2006-2020 (doi:10.7910/DVN/CICODO)

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Document Description

Citation

Title:

Daily census tract-level wildfire fine particulate matter concentrations for California, 2006-2020

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/CICODO

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Date of Distribution:

2024-01-09

Version:

1

Bibliographic Citation:

Casey, Joan; Benmarhnia, Tarik; Aguilera, Rosana, 2024, "Daily census tract-level wildfire fine particulate matter concentrations for California, 2006-2020", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/CICODO, Harvard Dataverse, V1

Study Description

Citation

Title:

Daily census tract-level wildfire fine particulate matter concentrations for California, 2006-2020

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/CICODO

Authoring Entity:

Casey, Joan (University of Washington School of Public Health)

Benmarhnia, Tarik (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego)

Aguilera, Rosana (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego)

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Access Authority:

Aguilera, Rosana

Depositor:

Casey, Joan

Date of Deposit:

2023-12-12

Holdings Information:

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/CICODO

Study Scope

Keywords:

Earth and Environmental Sciences, Smoke, Wildfires, Models, Statistical, Air Pollution

Abstract:

This dataset contains aggregated measurements of daily wildfire-specific fine particulate matter (PM2.5) concentrations at the census tract level in California from 2006 to 2020. Similar data at the zip code level was first described in a study by Aguilera et al. (2023): "A novel ensemble-based statistical approach to estimate daily wildfire-specific PM2.5 in California (2006-2020)," published in Environment International. We used monitoring data and statistical techniques to estimate daily wildfire PM2.5 concentrations at each census tract population-weighted centroid across California. Input data included monitored PM2.5 concentrations and a wide range of predictors for PM2.5, such as aerosol optical depth, land cover, and meteorological conditions, to estimate daily concentrations of PM2.5. We also used the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Hazard Mapping System and fire perimeter data from CalFIRE to isolate daily wildfire smoke PM2.5 from total PM2.5.

Country:

United States

Geographic Coverage:

California

Geographic Unit(s):

Census tract

Methodology and Processing

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Data Access

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<a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0">CC0 1.0</a>

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Related Publications

Citation

Title:

Aguilera R, Luo N, Basu R, Wu J, Clemesha R, Gershunov A, Benmarhnia T. A novel ensemble-based statistical approach to estimate daily wildfire-specific PM2. 5 in California (2006–2020). Environment International. 2023 Jan 1;171:107719.

Identification Number:

36592523

Bibliographic Citation:

Aguilera R, Luo N, Basu R, Wu J, Clemesha R, Gershunov A, Benmarhnia T. A novel ensemble-based statistical approach to estimate daily wildfire-specific PM2. 5 in California (2006–2020). Environment International. 2023 Jan 1;171:107719.

Other Study-Related Materials

Label:

wfpm25_CT_2006to2020_updated_Aug2023.csv

Text:

This dataset contains four columns: geoid--the census tract identifier date--the year, month, and day of the estimated PM2.5 concentration ml_pm25_aug2023--estimated non-wildfire PM2.5 concentration in ug/m3 wf_pm25_aug2023--estimated wildfire PM2.5 concentration in ug/m3

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