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Daily and Annual PM2.5 Concentrations for the Contiguous United States, 1-km Grids, Version 1.10 (2000-2016)

Metadata Updated: August 23, 2025

The Daily and Annual PM2.5 Concentrations for the Contiguous United States, 1-km Grids, Version 1.10 (2000-2016) data set includes predictions of PM2.5 concentration in grid cells at a resolution of 1-km for the years 2000-2016. A generalized additive model was used that accounted for geographic difference to ensemble daily predictions of three machine learning models: neural network, random forest, and gradient boosting. The three machine learners incorporated multiple predictors, including satellite data, meteorological variables, land-use variables, elevation, chemical transport model predictions, several reanalysis data sets, and others. The annual predictions were calculated by averaging the daily predictions for each year in each grid cell. The ensembled model demonstrated better predictive performance than the individual machine learners with 10-fold cross-validated R-squared values of 0.86 for daily predictions and 0.89 for annual predictions. In version 1.10, the completeness of daily PM2.5 predictions have been enhanced by employing linear interpolation to impute missing values. Specifically, for days with small spatial patches of missing data with less than 100 grid cells, inverse distance weighting interpolation was used to fill the missing grid cells. Other missing daily PM2.5 predictions were interpolated from the nearest days with available data. Annual predictions were updated by averaging the imputed daily predictions for each year in each grid cell. These daily and annual PM2.5 predictions allow public health researchers to respectively estimate the short- and long-term effects of PM2.5 exposures on human health, supporting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the revision of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for 24-hour average and annual average concentrations of PM2.5. The data are available in RDS and GeoTIFF formats for statistical research and geospatial analysis.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date February 7, 2024
Metadata Updated Date August 23, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from NASA Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date February 7, 2024
Metadata Updated Date August 23, 2025
Publisher SEDAC
Maintainer
Identifier C2848642054-SEDAC
Data First Published 2024-01-30
Language en-US
Data Last Modified 2025-07-17
Category AQDH, geospatial
Public Access Level public
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Metadata Type geospatial
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Program Code 026:001
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 2418a77268114f54ec9ceb0114ea657631637644c8b1769c0ae7a2b56fb24a7c
Source Schema Version 1.1
Spatial
Temporal 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z/2016-12-31T00:00:00Z

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