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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Dec 7.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Remote Sens. 2008 Jun;29(12):3383–3405. doi: 10.1080/01431160701474545

Table 4(a).

Regression of PM2.5 on AOD, mean sea level pressure and relative humidity at 5 km pixel resolution – aggregate analysis.

PM2.5 as a function of: Interval across satellite crossing time (h: min)
0:15 0:30 0:45 1:00 1:15 1:30 1:45 2:00 2:15 2:30 All
ln(AOD) 0.458 (3.23)** 0.482 (3.66)** 0.454 (4.24)** 0.369 (4.29)** 0.366 (4.46)** 0.371 (4.85)** 0.336 (4.77)** 0.333 (4.61)** 0.342 (4.93)** 0.352 (4.98)** 0.352 (4.99)**
Relative humidity (%) 0.037 (3.62)** 0.012 (−1.16) 0.01 (−1.32) 0.012 (−1.86) 0.013 (2.09)* 0.015 (2.72)** 0.017 (3.37)** 0.019 (3.98)** 0.016 (3.80)** 0.016 (3.66)** 0.016 (3.66)**
Mean sea level atmospheric pressure (hectopascal) 0.029 (−1.57) 0.054 (3.21)** 0.054 (4.06)** 0.052 (4.67)** 0.051 (4.86)** 0.051 (5.30)** 0.046 (4.92)** 0.047 (5.17)** 0.046 (5.11)** 0.047 (5.10)** 0.047 (5.10)**
Intra-pixel PM2.5 variance 0.205 (10.77)** 0.178 (8.30)** 0.158 (9.40)** 0.144 (9.99)** 0.166 (11.27)** 0.173 (12.12)** 0.167 (12.36)** 0.159 (12.53)** 0.156 (12.65)** 0.162 (13.17)** 0.162 (13.15)**
Constant −27.198 (−1.46) −51.383 (3.02)** −51.683 (3.82)** −49.588 (4.39)** −48.25 (4.58)** −48.432 (5.01)** −43.471 (4.63)** −44.843 (4.88)** −43.664 (4.80)** −44.513 (4.80)** −44.525 (4.80)**
Observations 37 58 94 109 126 142 155 167 174 175 175
R2 0.81 0.66 0.61 0.61 0.62 0.63 0.62 0.61 0.6 0.61 0.61