期刊
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION
卷 106, 期 493, 页码 6-20出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1198/jasa.2010.ap09237
关键词
Climate change; Ozone; Semiparametric Bayesian methods; Spatial data
资金
- National Science Foundation [DMS-0706731]
- Environmental Protection Agency [R833863]
- National Institutes of Health [5R01ES014843-02]
- EPA [R833863, 150129] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
Tropospheric ozone is one of the six criteria pollutants regulated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency under the Clean Air Act and has been linked with several adverse health effects, including mortality. Due to the strong dependence on weather conditions, ozone may be sensitive to climate change and there is great interest in studying the potential effect of climate change on ozone, and how this change may affect public health. In this paper we develop a Bayesian spatial model to predict ozone under different meteorological conditions, and use this model to study spatial and temporal trends and to forecast ozone concentrations under different climate scenarios. We develop a spatial quantile regression model that does not assume normality and allows the covariates to affect the entire conditional distribution, rather than just the mean. The conditional distribution is allowed to vary from site-to-site and is smoothed with a spatial prior. For extremely large datasets our model is computationally infeasible, and we develop an approximate method. We apply the approximate version of our model to summer ozone from 1997-2005 in the Eastem U.S., and use deterministic climate models to project ozone under future climate conditions. Our analysis suggests that holding all other factors fixed, an increase in daily average temperature will lead to the largest increase in ozone in the Industrial Midwest and Northeast.
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