USHighPM₂.₅: Daily Seamless 1 km Ground-Level PM₂.₅ Dataset for the United States (2000–Present)

USHighPM_2.5 is part of a series of long-term, seamless, high-resolution, and high-quality datasets of air pollutants for the United States (i.e., USHighAirPollutants, USHAP). It is generated from big data sources (e.g., ground-based measurements, satellite remote sensing products, atmospheric reanalysis, and model simulations) using artificial intelligence, taking into account the spatiotemporal heterogeneity of air pollution.

Here is the first big data-derived seamless (spatial coverage = 100%) daily, monthly, and yearly 1 km (i.e., D1K, M1K, and Y1K) ground-level PM_2.5 dataset for the United States from 2000 to the present. This dataset exhibits high quality, with a cross-validation coefficient of determination (CV-R²) of 0.92 and a normalized root-mean-square error (NRMSE) of 0.4 on a daily basis.

If you use the USHighPM_2.5 dataset in your scientific research, please cite the following reference (Wei et al., LPH, 2023):

• Wei, J., Wang, J., Li, Z., Kondragunta, S., Anenberg, S., Wang, Y., Zhang, H., Diner, D., Hand, J., Lyapustin, A., Kahn, R., Colarco, P., da Silva, A., and Ichoku, C. 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 modelling study. The Lancet Planetary Health, 2023, 7, e963–e975. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(23)00235-8

More USHAP datasets for different air pollutants are available at: https://weijing-rs.github.io/product.html