Dataset
Forecast and citizen observations for temperature and ozone for Los Angeles area
University of Iowa
2022
DOI: 10.25820/data.006164
Abstract
Heat waves and air pollution events can often occur at the same time, posing a dual threat to the public health in many urban neighborhoods. However, at or within the neighborhood scale few measurements have been taken via community engagement and little is known quantitatively about the co-variation of ozone and temperature Here, we present data from a summer pilot project of community science that involved ~1000 people to study urban heat and ozone pollution in various neighborhoods in Los Angeles, CA. The data collected by the community members reveals large spatial variations of ozone and temperature at the neighborhood scale, which are not resolved in the current generation of the operational (daily) air quality forecast predictions or satellite data products. However, with observations suggesting the significant impact of canopy on air temperature and model’s reliable performance in predicting observed strong ozone-temperature co-variations.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Forecast and citizen observations for temperature and ozone for Los Angeles area
- Creators
- Jun Wang (Corresponding Author) - University of Iowa, Chemical and Biochemical EngineeringLorena Castro Garcia (Data Curator) - University of Iowa, Iowa Technology InstituteG. Darrel Jenerette (Project Manager)Mark Chandler (Project Manager) - Earthwatch InstituteCui Ge (Researcher) - University of Iowa, Iowa Technology InstituteDion Kucera (Research Group) - University of California, RiversideSofia Koutzoukis (Research Group) - University of California, RiversideJing Zeng (Researcher) - University of Iowa, Iowa Technology Institute
- Contributors
- Brian Westra (Data Curator) - University of Iowa, Humanities and Social Sciences/Scholarly Impact
- Resource Type
- Dataset
- DOI
- 10.25820/data.006164
- Publisher
- University of Iowa
- Grants
- Earth Science Citizen Science Program, NNX17AG61A, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (United States, Washington) - NASA
- Language
- English
- Date collected
- 06/01/2017–09/30/2017
- Date published
- 2022
- Description methods
- 1. WRF-Chem is an open-access model which can be acquired at: https://www2.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/users/downloads.html. 2. Satellite data (MOD11A) is 1x1 km2 land surface temperature which can be downloaded from https://earthdata.nasa.gov 3.The model data and community science data can also be downloaded from https://esmc.uiowa.edu/ca/, under the “Citizen Data” menu
- Academic Unit
- Civil and Environmental Engineering; IIHR--Hydroscience and Engineering; Humanities and Social Sciences/Scholarly Impact
- Record Identifier
- 9984214536802771
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