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Spatiotemporally resolved emissions and concentrations of styrene, benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes (SBTEX) in the US Gulf region
Chi-Tsan Wang
Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems (CSISS), George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems (CSISS), George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
William Vizuete
Department of Environmental Sciences & Engineering, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Lawrence S. Engel
Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems (CSISS), George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
Jaime Green
Department of Environmental Sciences & Engineering, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Marc Serre
Department of Environmental Sciences & Engineering, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Richard Strott
Department of Environmental Sciences & Engineering, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Jared Bowden
Department of Applied Ecology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
Jung-Hun Woo
Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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Hazardous air pollutant (HAP) human exposure studies usually rely on local measurements or dispersion model methods, but those methods are limited under spatial and temporal conditions. We processed the US EPA emission data to simulate the hourly HAP emission patterns and applied the chemical transport model to simulate the HAP concentrations. The modeled HAP results exhibit good agreement (R is 0.75 and NMB is −5.6 %) with observational data.
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