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Library Topics and References

• Asthma
• Aerosols and Climate
• Pollution
• Sunphotometer
• Socioeconomic Information

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Asthma

• Claudio, L., L. Tulton, J. Doucette, and P.J. Landrigan 1999. Socioeconomic Factors and Asthma Hospitalization Rates in New York City Journal of Asthma 36 (4), 343-350. [Provided here with the author's permission]. PDF
• Children's Health Study, California Air Resources Board.
• American Lung Association
• Asthma in America Survey Project
• Role of Ozone Exposure in Epidemiology of Asthma

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Aerosols and Climate

• How Do Aerosols Affect Earth's Climate and Our Health? (PDF file: 116 KB) by Brian Cairns and Barbara Carlson
• Aerosols in our Atmosphere.
• Aerosols and Climate Change, NASA Earth Observatory
• Climate Forcings in the Industrial Era, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
• Dessert Dust, Dust Storms and Climate, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies

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Pollution

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Air Data
  http://www.epa.gov/air/data/index.html
• Particulate Matter
  http://www.epa.gov/ebtpages/airairpoparticulatematterpm.html
• The Effects of Air Pollution on Asthma
  http://charlotte.med.nyu.edu/outreach/asthma.html

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Sunphotometer

• Technical and Historical Perspectives of Remote Sensing.
• An Inexpensive and Accurate Student Sun Photometer with Light-Emitting Diodes as Spectrally Selective Detectors.
• Calibration and Data Collection With the GLOBE Sun Photometer
• Characterization of LED-Based Sun Photometers for Use as GLOBE Instruments

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Socioeconomic Information

• U.S. Census
  http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer

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