Table 11.

Comparison of Yard Upwind Values with Other Studies of Neighborhoods

	Yard Upwind			RIOPA Study Outdoor Samplesa			Minneapolis Neighborhoodsb			New York Inner City Neighborhoodc,d			Los Angeles Inner City Neighborhoodc			Brisbane Eagle Farm Light Industrye
							Winter / Summer			Winter / Summer			Winter / Summer
Pollutant (µg/m3)	N	Median	SD	N	Median	SD	N	Median	SD	N	Median	90th Per- centile	N	Median	SD	N	Median	SD
1,3-Butadiene	432	0.12	0.45	—			—			31 27	0.1 0.1	0.2 0.4	35 32	0.2 0.01	0.4 —	—
Benzene	432	1.01	0.87	554	2.15	2.11	113	1.3 1.1	2.2 1.6	31 27	2.4 1.1	1.2 1.1	35 32	4.3 2.3	1.7 0.8	28	10.5	31.9
Ethylbenzene	432	0.40	0.53	554	1.29	1.87	113	0.6 0.5	0.8 0.7	31 26	1.1 1.7	0.5 1.6	35 32	2.9 2.1	1.4 0.7	28	5.9	40.3
Toluene	432	2.77	3.43	554	7.09	6.47	113	2.6 2.7	4.2 3.6	31 26	5.5 6.9	2.7 3.5	35 32	16 11	9.4 3.8	28	40.0	312.9
m&p-Xylenes	432	1.36	1.69	554	3.57	4.15	113	2.3 2.0	3.3 2.8	31 27	3.7 5.0	1.7 5.4	35 32	11 7.8	5.1 2.5	28	21.2	121.5
o-Xylene	432	0.46	0.63	554	1.48	3.90	113	0.8 0.7	1.1 0.9	31 27	1.3 1.8	0.6 1.7	35 32	3.9 2.8	1.9 0.9	28	8.3	52.1
Acetaldehydef	345	2.06	2.45	395	3.21	1.65	—			36 36	2.8 4.2	0.9 1.5	40 35	3.7 4.1	1.2 1.6	28	2.9	4.0
Formaldehydef	345	3.22	1.75	395	3.02	3.00	—			36 36	2.1 5.3	0.9 2.3	40 35	3.9 4.4	1.3 1.6	28	1.8	2.8

^aWeisel et al. 2005.

^bAdgate et al. 2004.

^cSax et al. 2004.

^dKinney et al. 2002.

^eHawas et al. 2002.

^fAldehydes were collected by passive sampling using the DNSH method (Herrington et al. 2005).