The data were
collected by air pollution monitoring campaigns, and included levels of nitrogen dioxide (a prominent air pollutant caused by traffic and cigarette smoking), coarse particles, and fine particles.
Not exact matches
That data was combined with
pollution and weather information
collected by 13
air - quality monitoring stations.
Household
air pollution from these sources is currently linked to 2.8 million premature deaths per year, and several billion hours are spent
collecting firewood for cooking, mostly
by women, that could be put to more productive uses.
Women in households without access to modern energy dedicate on average 1.4 hours a day
collecting wood and women also spend several hours each day cooking using traditional stoves, and are thereby the most impact
by household
air pollution.
In conducting the study, scientists used computer models and
air pollution data
collected by aircraft, satellite and ground monitors.
The research was conducted in the UK; The scientists started
by measuring how much
air pollution go into a certain number of houses in Lancaster using dust monitoring devices and
by swiping surfaces and then analyzing what was
collected with magnetic remanence, a technique that provides information on concentrations of iron - bearing particles.