Biomass burning for home energy use contributes to negative health outcomes and environmental degradation. As part of the REACCTING study (Research on Emissions, Air quality, Climate, and Cooking Technologies in Northern Ghana), personal exposure to carbon monoxide (CO) was measured to gauge the effects of introducing two different cookstove types over four intervention groups. A novel Bluetooth Low-Energy (BLE) Beacon system was deployed on a subset of those CO measurement periods to estimate participants’ distances to their most-used cooking areas during the sampling periods. In addition to presenting methods and validation for the BLE Beacon system, here we present pollution exposure assessment modeling results using two different approaches, in which time-activity (proximity) data is used to: (1) better understand exposure and behaviors within and away from homes; and (2) predict personal exposure via microenvironment air quality measurements. Model fits were improved in both cases, demonstrating the benefits of the proximity measurements.
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Stratification of the upper few meters of the ocean limits the penetration depth of wind mixing and the vertical distribution of atmospheric fluxes. S...
From the earliest observations of ozone in the lower atmosphere in the 19th century, both measurement methods and the portion of the globe observed ha...
2019 | Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124, 13439-13456
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We present airborne observations of the vertical gradient of atmospheric oxygen (δ (O2/N2)) and carbon dioxide (CO2) through the atmospheric boundary...
2019 | Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124, 7413–7428
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Deep convection can transport surface moisture and pollution from the planetary boundary layer to the upper troposphere (UT) within a few minutes. The...
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2019 | Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124, 12141-12156
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Ice crystals commonly adopt a horizontal orientation under certain aerodynamic and electrodynamic conditions that occur in the atmosphere. While the r...
2019 | Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124, 13576-13592
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Accuracy of cloud predictions in numerical weather models can considerably impact ozone (O-3) forecast skill. This study assesses the benefits in surf...
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2019 | Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 1061-1069.
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Convective systems dominate the vertical transport of aerosols and trace gases. The most recent in situ aerosol measurements presented here show that ...
2019 | Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 1113-1120.
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Two recent studies using sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) observations to evaluate interhemispheric transport in two different ensembles of atmospheric chemi...
2019 | Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124, 57-71
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2019 | Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124(12), 6104-6119
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The width of the tropical Hadley circulation (HC) has garnered intense interest in recent decades, owing to the emerging evidence for its expansion in...
2019 | Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 2242-2252.
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