{"id":147,"date":"2018-10-02T16:14:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T20:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urbanclimate\/?page_id=147"},"modified":"2018-10-02T17:33:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T21:33:53","slug":"urban-air-pollution","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urbanclimate\/research\/urban-air-pollution\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Air Pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health departments and urban planners have growing needs for high-resolution data on urban air pollution concentrations.\u00a0 These data can be used to: quantify health burdens at the neighborhood scale, identify and prioritize exposure-reduction strategies for pollution hot-spots, track progress in achieving air-quality-related health-improvement goals, and assess health co-benefits of longer-term carbon-mitigation strategies. In this NASA-funded project, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urbanclimate\/profile\/patrick-kinney\/\">Dr. Kinney<\/a>\u2019s group is using available satellite products and low-cost sensor networks to construct high-resolution fine particle (PM<sub>2.5<\/sub>) spatial fields for intra-urban public-health assessments in NYC and Boston. Learn more at the <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/haqast-highrestt\/\">project website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment149\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment149\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/urbanclimate\/files\/2018\/10\/Smog-NY-Boston-EO.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urbanclimate\/files\/2018\/10\/Smog-NY-Boston-EO.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urbanclimate\/files\/2018\/10\/Smog-NY-Boston-EO-636x424.jpg 636w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Haze over New England and Mid-Atlantic States.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health departments and urban planners have growing needs for high-resolution data on urban air pollution concentrations.\u00a0 These data can be used to: quantify health burdens at the neighborhood scale, identify and prioritize exposure-reduction strategies for pollution hot-spots, track progress in achieving air-quality-related health-improvement goals, and assess health co-benefits of longer-term carbon-mitigation strategies. In this NASA-funded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14382,"featured_media":0,"parent":30,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urbanclimate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urbanclimate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urbanclimate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urbanclimate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14382"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urbanclimate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urbanclimate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urbanclimate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/147\/revisions\/163"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urbanclimate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urbanclimate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}