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Research article
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22 Jun 2017
Research article |
| 22 Jun 2017
Status update: is smoke on your mind? Using social media to assess smoke exposure
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, 1371
Campus Delivery, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
Moira Burke
Facebook, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
William Lassman
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, 1371
Campus Delivery, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
Gabriele Pfister
National Center for Atmospheric Research, 3450 Mitchell Lane, Boulder,
CO 80301, USA
Jeffrey R. Pierce
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, 1371
Campus Delivery, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
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- The effect of pollution on crime: Evidence from data on particulate matter and ozone J. Burkhardt et al. 10.1016/j.jeem.2019.102267
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Short summary
We explore using the percent of Facebook posters mentioning
smokeor
air qualityto assess exposure to wildfire smoke in the western US during summer 2015. We compare this de-identified, aggregated Facebook dataset to satellite observations, surface measurements, and model-simulated concentrations, and we find good agreement in smoke-impacted regions. Our results suggest that aggregate social media data can be used to supplement traditional datasets to estimate smoke exposure.
We explore using the percent of Facebook posters mentioning
smokeor
air qualityto assess...
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