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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(b).

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

PM10 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) 0.179 (−1.00) 0.225 (−1.67) 0.28 (2.83)** 0.297 (3.53)** 0.271 (3.56)** 0.248 (3.35)** 0.204 (3.02)** 0.188 (2.81)** 0.165 (2.57)* 0.165 (2.56)* 0.166 (2.58)*
Relative humidity (%) 0.016 (−1.22) 0.009 (−0.9) −0.004 (−0.58) −0.004 (−0.64) −0.003 (−0.5) 0 (−0.03) 0.003 (−0.63) 0.002 (−0.48) 0.003 (−0.76) 0.003 (−0.76) 0.003 (−0.77)
Mean sea level atmospheric pressure (hectopascal) 0.024 (−1.06) 0.035 (2.10)* 0.032 (2.62)* 0.031 (2.82)** 0.026 (2.66)** 0.026 (2.83)** 0.019 (2.09)* 0.019 (2.30)* 0.019 (2.35)* 0.02 (2.46)* 0.02 (2.46)*
Intra-pixel PM10 variance 0.226 (6.66)** 0.195 (7.95)** 0.21 (11.32)** 0.194 (11.50)** 0.213 (14.30)** 0.196 (13.78)** 0.181 (14.02)** 0.19 (14.90)** 0.186 (15.09)** 0.187 (15.42)** 0.187 (15.42)**
Constant −21.272 (−0.93) −32.065 (−1.9) −28.825 (2.31)* −27.664 (2.45)* −22.626 (2.27)* −22.809 (2.42)* −14.998 (−1.66) −15.804 (−1.86) −15.966 (−1.9) −16.966 (2.02)* −16.968 (2.02)*
Observations 37 59 94 110 127 142 155 167 174 175 175
R2 0.59 0.59 0.62 0.58 0.66 0.61 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.61 0.61