Predicting daily ozone concentration maxima using fuzzy time series based on a two-stage linguistic partition method

Climate change education: the need for comprehensive climate change education in environmental public health curriculum

“…Higher temperatures may magnify the effects of air pollutants like ozone, although estimates of the size of this effect vary (Ren et al, 2008;Jackson et al, 2010). In general, all-cause mortality related to ozone is expected to increase in the USA and Canada (Bell et al, 2007;Tagaris et al, 2009;Jackson et al, 2010;Cheng et al, 2011). Under a scenario in which present air quality legislation is rolled out everywhere, premature deaths due to ozone would be wound back in Africa, South Asia, and East Asia.…”

“…A study that investigated regional air quality in the USA in 2050, using a down-scaled climate model (Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Global Climate Model), concluded there would be about 4000 additional annual premature deaths due to increased exposures to PM 2.5 (Tagaris et al, 2009). Air pollutant-related mortality increases are also projected for Canada, but in this case they are largely driven by the effects of ozone (Cheng et al, 2011). On the basis of the relation of asthma to air quality in the last decade (1999-2010), Thompson et al (2012) anticipate that the prevalence of asthma in South Africa will increase substantially by 2050.…”

Evolutionary Fuzzy Relational Modeling for Fuzzy Time Series Forecasting

“…Chen and Chung [19], as well as Lee et al [20], used genetic algorithms (GA) to adjust the length of each interval for one-and two-factor high-order forecasting models, respectively. Cheng et al [21] proposed a fuzzy time series forecasting model with a two-stage linguistic partition method. Joshi and Kumar [22] proposed a computational model of forecasting for fuzzy time series based on intuitionistic fuzzy sets, in which the degree of nondeterminacy is used to establish fuzzy logical relations.…”

New York City Panel on Climate Change 2015 ReportChapter 5: Public Health Impacts and Resiliency

“…Ozone production is dependent on temperature and the presence of sunlight, with higher temperatures and still, cloudless days leading to increased production. Thus, ground-level ozone concentrations have the potential to increase in some regions in response to climate change (Ebi and McGregor, 2008; Tsai et al, 2008; Cheng et al, 2011; Polvani et al, 2011; Hogrefe et al, 2004). …”