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NEISA Research and Products
Air Quality, Climate, and Health Database Development and Analysis
Assembling a comprehensive database that includes biological, chemical, and physical aspects of air quality as
well as human health effects data provides the foundation from which to investigate the key scientific questions
listed above. Our approach is based on real world conditions because we focus on examining the relationships
among climate, air quality, and health over the past 15-25 years. One of the main problems of extrapolating our
present understanding to any future scenarios is that our current understanding of climate Š air quality - health
relationships is poorly understood and regional climate model predictions of future climate are not yet reliable.
We do know that the relationships between climate, air quality, and human health are dynamic, non-linear, and
involve key thresholds. Much can be learned about these relationships through analysis of data that has already
been collected, but not yet brought together in a single integrated data base and analyzed in an integrated manner.
More comprehensive, long-term (15-25 year) data sets on finer spatial (i.e. city or better) and temporal
(i.e. daily) scales are needed. The basis of our approach is to therefore to develop a data base that will
allow for the analysis of the regionÕs climate, air quality, and human health over the past 15-25 years.
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