Machine learning in environmental research: common pitfalls and best practices

JJ Zhu, M Yang, ZJ Ren - Environmental Science & Technology, 2023 - ACS Publications
Machine learning (ML) is increasingly used in environmental research to process large data
sets and decipher complex relationships between system variables. However, due to the …

A review of machine learning for modeling air quality: Overlooked but important issues

D Tang, Y Zhan, F Yang - Atmospheric Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Machine learning models based on satellite remote sensing have gained
widespread use in estimating ground-level air pollutant concentrations, which overcome the …

Monthly global estimates of fine particulate matter and their uncertainty

A Van Donkelaar, MS Hammer, L Bindle… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Annual global satellite-based estimates of fine particulate matter (PM2. 5) are widely relied
upon for air-quality assessment. Here, we develop and apply a methodology for monthly …

Machine learning: new ideas and tools in environmental science and engineering

S Zhong, K Zhang, M Bagheri, JG Burken… - … science & technology, 2021 - ACS Publications
The rapid increase in both the quantity and complexity of data that are being generated daily
in the field of environmental science and engineering (ESE) demands accompanied …

Data-driven machine learning in environmental pollution: gains and problems

X Liu, D Lu, A Zhang, Q Liu, G Jiang - Environmental science & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The complexity and dynamics of the environment make it extremely difficult to directly predict
and trace the temporal and spatial changes in pollution. In the past decade, the …

Daily Local-Level Estimates of Ambient Wildfire Smoke PM2.5 for the Contiguous US

ML Childs, J Li, J Wen, S Heft-Neal… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Smoke from wildfires is a growing health risk across the US. Understanding the spatial and
temporal patterns of such exposure and its population health impacts requires separating …

Explainable heat-related mortality with random forest and SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) models

Y Kim, Y Kim - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2022 - Elsevier
The heat increase caused by climate change has worsened the urban heat environment and
damaged human health, which has led to heat-related mortality. One of the most important …

[HTML][HTML] An ensemble-based model of PM2. 5 concentration across the contiguous United States with high spatiotemporal resolution

Q Di, H Amini, L Shi, I Kloog, R Silvern, J Kelly… - Environment …, 2019 - Elsevier
Various approaches have been proposed to model PM 2.5 in the recent decade, with
satellite-derived aerosol optical depth, land-use variables, chemical transport model …

Improved 1 km resolution PM2.5 estimates across China using enhanced space–time extremely randomized trees

J Wei, Z Li, M Cribb, W Huang, W Xue… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - acp.copernicus.org
Fine particulate matter with aerodynamic diameters≤ 2.5 µ m (PM 2.5) has adverse effects
on human health and the atmospheric environment. The estimation of surface PM 2.5 …

Long-term mortality burden trends attributed to black carbon and PM2· 5 from wildfire emissions across the continental USA from 2000 to 2020: a deep learning …

J Wei, J Wang, Z Li, S Kondragunta… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background Long-term improvements in air quality and public health in the continental USA
were disrupted over the past decade by increased fire emissions that potentially offset the …