Data from: Yellow Air Day Advisory Study

Creators

Arthur J. Caplan, Utah State UniversityFollow

Description

Using a dataset consisting of daily vehicle trips, PM2.5 concentrations, along with a host of climactic control variables, we test the hypothesis that “yellow air day” advisories provided by the Utah Division of Air Quality resulted in subsequent reductions in vehicle trips taken during northern Utah’s winter-inversion seasons in the early 2000s. Winter inversions occur in northern Utah when climactic conditions are such that PM2.5 concentrations (derived mainly from vehicle emissions) become trapped in the lower atmosphere, leading to unhealthy air quality (concentrations of at least 35 µg/m3) over a span of what are called “red air days”. When concentrations rise to between 15 and 25 µg/m3 on their way to the 35 µg/m3 threshold, the region’s residents are informed via several different media sources and road signage that the region is experiencing a yellow air day, and urged to reduce their vehicle usage during the day. Our results suggest that yellow air day advisories have been at best weak, at worst perverse, measures for reducing vehicle usage on yellow air days and ultimately for mitigating the occurrence of red air day episodes during northern Utah’s winter inversion season.

OCLC

1266167852

Document Type

Dataset

DCMI Type

Dataset

File Format

.zip, .txt, .csv, .pdf

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Publication Date

8-19-2021

Funder

Utah Agricultural Experiment Station

Publisher

Utah State University

Award Number

Utah Agricultural Experiment Station, UTAO-1334

Methodology

Data is secondary, compiled in comma-separated values (CSV) format. The data sources are the US Environmental Protection Agency, the Utah Division of Air Quality, the Utah Department of Transportation, and the Weather Underground.

Start Date

11-25-2019

End Date

1-3-2020

Location

Cache County, Utah

Language

eng

Code Lists

See the README file.

Comments

A single .csv file containing all the data for all regression analyses reported in paper.

Disciplines

Agricultural Economics | Agriculture | Environmental Monitoring | Natural Resources Management and Policy | Other Environmental Sciences

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.26078/t2x0-es74

Recommended Citation

Caplan, A. J. (2021). Data from: Yellow Air Day Advisory Study. Utah State University. https://doi.org/10.26078/T2X0-ES74

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