chicagoNMMAPS: Daily Mortality Weather and Pollution Data for Chicago
Description
The dataset contains daily mortality (all causes, CVD, respiratory), weather (temperature, dew point temperature, relative humidity) and pollution data (PM10 and ozone) for Chicago in the period 1987-2000 from the National Morbidity, Mortality and Air Pollution Study
(NMMAPS)source
The complete dataset is available at the Internet-based Health and Air Pollution Surveillance System (iHAPSS) website:
http://www.ihapss.jhsph.edu
or through the packages NMMAPSdata or NMMAPSlite.Details
These data represents a subsample of the variables included in the NMMAPS dataset for Chicago.
The variable temp is derived from the original tmpd after a transformation from Fahrenheit to Celsius. The variables pm10 and o3 are an approximated reconstruction of the original series, adding the de-trended values and the median of the long term trend. This is the reason they include negative values. See vignette('PollutantProcess') from the packages NMMAPSdata or NMMAPSlite.