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Smith et al. 2003
Smith, R.L., Kolenikov, S. and Cox, L.H. (2003). Spatiotemporal modeling of PM2.5 data with missing values. Journal of Geophysical Research 108: doi: 10.1029/2002JD002914. issn: 0148-0227.

We propose a method of analyzing spatiotemporal data by decomposition into deterministic nonparametric functions of time and space, linear functions of other covariates, and a random component that is spatially, though not temporally, correlated. The resulting model is used for spatial interpolation and especially for estimation of a spatially dependent temporal average. The results are applied to part of the PM2.5 network established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, covering three southeastern U.S. states. A novel feature of the analysis is a variant of the expectation-maximization algorithm to account for missing data. The results show, among other things, that a substantial part of the region is in violation of the proposed long-term average standard for PM2.5.

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Keywords
Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Aerosols and particles (0345, 4801), Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Pollution--urban and regional, Mathematical Geophysics, Modeling
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Journal of Geophysical Research
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