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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Feb 3.
Published in final edited form as: J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2014 Jul 9;25(5):532–542. doi: 10.1038/jes.2014.45

Table 1.

Summary of the 5 clusters (bolded rows represent variables used in clustering)

Cluster 1 – 1523 Days Winter
Low Boundary Layer
Cluster 2 – 1308 Days Summer
Moderate Weather
Cluster 3 – 1145 Days Winter
High Boundary Layer
Cluster 4 – 946 Days Summer
Regional Pollution Event
Cluster 5 – 834 Days Transition
High SD of Temp.
Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean (SD)
Temp (C)       2 (5)     16 (4)       4 (6)     23 (3)     13 (6)
max T past 3 days (C)       7 (6)     21 (6)       9 (7)     26 (4)     16 (7)
max T today (C)
SD Hourly Temp (C)
      6 (5)
      2 (1)
    19 (4)
      2 (1)
      8 (6)
      2 (1)
    29 (3)
      3 (1)
    20 (6)
      4 (1)
(mbar)       5 (2)     14 (4)       6 (3)     20 (4)       9 (3)
Sea-Level Pressure (mbar) 1022 (6) 1016 (6) 1007 (7) 1013 (5) 1017 (7)
Ozone (ppb)     18 (9)     22 (9)     24 (9)     35 (12)     27 (11)
8-hour max ozone (ppb)     26 (10)     32 (11)     31 (9)     52 (17)     39 (14)
Wind Speed (m/s)       5 (1)       4 (1)       7 (2)       5 (1)       5 (1)
Boundary Layer Height (m)   686 (329)   620 (226) 1086 (399)   785 (224)   801 (312)
PM2.5 (ug/m3)     10 (5)     10 (5)       7 (4)     16 (9)     10 (5)
Sulfur Dioxide (ppb)       7 (4)       3 (2)       4 (3)       3 (2)       4 (3)
Nitrogen Dioxide (ppb)     23 (7)     19 (6)     17 (6)     19 (7)     21 (8)
Nitrogen Monoxide (ppb)     24 (20)     15 (11)     12 (8)       9 (6)     16 (12)
Black Carbon (ug/m3)    0.9 (0.6)    1.0 (0.6)    0.6 (0.4)    1.1 (0.6)    0.9 (0.6)
Precipitation per day (mm)       1 (5)       3 (10)       6 (12)       2 (7)       1 (4)