Air pollution
The annual average concentrations of air pollutants at residential
addresses at birth were assigned from raster surfaces at a resolution of
100 x 100 m. Estimates for
nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and warm season ozone were
available for the year 2000 from the ELAPSE project.20 Both air pollutants were modelled by hybrid land
use regression models using data from AirBase, a database of routine air
pollution measurements in the EU member states. The hybrid models for
western Europe that used dispersion model estimates, land use and road
data and for ozone also kriging on the residuals, were able to explain
60 % and 82 % of the variation in measured NO2 and
ozone concentrations, respectively.