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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Mar 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Air Waste Manag Assoc. 2019 Oct 15;69(12):1391–1414. doi: 10.1080/10962247.2019.1668498

Table 1.

A summary of the publicly available PM2.5 exposure datasets

Source of Dataset Region Time Period Spatial Resolution Temporal Resolution Monitor Model Satellite Reference
1 GBD Global 1990 – 2013 *0.1°× 0.1° Annual X X X Brauer et al. (2016)
2 Dalhousie Dataset V4.GL.02 Global 1998 – 2016 1 km2 Annual X X X (1)
3 GBD Global 2014 *0.1°× 0.1° Annual X X X Shaddick et al., (2018a)
4 Berkeley Earth Global 2016 – 2017 *0.1°× 0.1° Daily X X (2)
5 Dalhousie Dataset V4.NA.02 CONUS 2000 – 2016 1 km2 Annual X X X (1)
6 EPA AirData CONUS 1999 – 2018 Point data; also available when averaged on county scale Daily X (3)
7 EST 2013 CONUS 2001 – 2006 8.9 km2 Monthly X X X Beckerman et al. (2013)
8 CDC EPHTN CONUS 2001 – 2015 County and Census tract Daily X X (4)
9 EPA FAQSD CONUS 2002 – 2015 12 km2 Daily X X (5)
10 CDC WONDER CONUS 2003 – 2011 County Daily X X (6)
11 AQAH 2018 NC, USA 2006 – 2008 12 km2 Monthly & Annual X X Huang et al. (2018)

Table 1 shows spatially continuous PM2.5 exposure datasets that are publicly available and free on individual websites or publications. The URLs of the datasets are listed below.

*

At mid-latitudes, 1° is approximately 100 km.

(1).

Dalhousie University Datasets: http://fizz.phys.dal.ca/~atmos/martin/?page_id=140

(2).

Berkeley Earth Air Quality Map: http://berkeleyearth.org/air-quality-real-time-map/