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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Res. 2014 Jan 11;129:11–19. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2013.12.001

Table 2.

Distribution of daily pollutant concentrations, temperature, and humidity during the study period (Sept. 2006 through June 2009)

Pollutant Days of data collection 24-hour mean (± SD) Percentiles
Minimum 5th 25th 50th 75th 95th Maximum
Ultrafine particles
(p/cm3)
990 5151 (2359) 480 1954 3442 4843 6449 9575 14450
Accumulation mode
particles (p/cm3)
990 1054 (679) 108 280 525 899 1399 2329 4444
Fine particles (μg/m3) 939 8.6 (5.9) 0.1 1.9 4.4 7.4 11.1 20.3 43.0
Carbon monoxide
(ppm)
982 0.40 (0.16) 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.7 1.0
Sulfur dioxide (ppb) 1011 5.4 (7.7) 1.0 1.2 2.0 3.3 5.1 19.4 50.0
Ozone (ppb) 1008 26.1 (10.2) 1.5 11.5 18.8 25.2 33.0 43.6 64.7
Black carbon (μg/m3) 923 0.68 (0.40) 0.05 0.20 0.37 0.61 0.90 1.40 2.44
Temperature (°C) 1034 9.8 (7.7) −13.2 −6.6 1.4 10.4 18.7 24.6 29.4
Relative humidity (%) 1033 64.1 (14.0) 10.2 40.9 55.8 65.2 73.5 85.2 95.3

p/cm3: parts per cubic centimeter; μg/m3: micrograms per cubic meter; ppm: parts per million; ppb: parts per billion